[ SECRET POST #2088 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2088 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

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Comments

[fscom]

11. http://oi49.tinypic.com/34t4fnn.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

YES!

[(Anonymous)]

YES.

[(Anonymous)]

I recognise her, but I don't know where from. Help please :-)

[(Anonymous)]

It's Michelle Trachtenberg in Harriet the Spy, playing Harriet. (Which is what the secret's about.)

She was also on Buffy as Dawn, and later the psychotically awesome Georgina on Gossip Girl.

[brightblueink]

Harriet the Spy. I think that's Amanda Bynes, so you might know her from other Nickelodeon stuff, too. Oh, whoops, nope, not Amanda.

[got_swagger]

Michelle Trachtenberg from Harriet the Spy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Gossip Girl

[brightblueink]

She was breaking and entering! How is that not wrong? I mean, I loved that book as a kid, and I love to observe people and take notes on them, too, but once she started sneaking into people's houses she reeeeally starts crossing the line.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, okay I'll give you that one. But aside from the one house she snuck into, I consider her blameless for everything else.

[anonymouslyyours]

Ohmigosh the first time I watched that movie it made me sick with nerves. I still get a little anxious remembering it.

Even before it went down I was :O No! Harriet not in a notebook where anyone can see! and then it actually happened.

I don't even write much of anything that would make people upset and it would devastate me if someone read my personal journal entries.

But, yeah, PRIVATE means NOT YOU!

[visp]

Wait, so she was spying on everyone's private lives and then got pissed that the notes she took on her escapades in invasion of privacy were read because she had written 'private' on them?

[(Anonymous)]

Heh, funny story. I read that book in 4th grade, followed her lead with the notebook idea, then my teacher snatched it from me one day and I ended up getting detention for the first and only time in my life. I maintain that I (and Harriet) did nothing wrong.

[(Anonymous)]

Was it because you were writing in it instead of paying attention in class, or was it because of the contents of what you write? Because if it was the first, that's harsh but not uncalled for, and if the second, FUCK YOUR TEACHER CHILDREN DESERVE PRIVACY TOO.

[(Anonymous)]

Same here, only it was my MOTHER who found and read it. It did not go well. Ruined HtS for me and I didn't keep another journal until I was away at college.

[(Anonymous)]

I think the point was to highlight that she wasn't wrong for everything. That while some of the things she did were unethical and shouldn't be dismissed (breaking and entering, like another comment says, and well... spying) there was nothing wrong with her having private opinions about people. A lot of the things her classmates got mad at her for writing weren't things she came up with through spying at all, they were just general observations and thoughts. And that's why in the end, she gets permission to lie. The story takes the black-and-white out of certain things that kids tend to be taught are always wrong, and puts them in a context where they can actually be right.

That said, I always thought Harriet was pretty outwardly mean-spirited to her "friends" as well. I wouldn't have been her friend in the first place, let alone after finding out she wrote worse things about me in private.

[littlestbirds]

This book is one of my only memories of crying, like sobbing uncontrollable tears, over a book. OF COURSE SHE DID NOTHING WRONG. I have never needed a reaction gif more, goddamnit, but I have to run...

[visp]

Ok, wasn't it like a shitload of stalking and invasion of privacy, with some rather unflattering comments about her friends written in there? Because I could see how that would piss people off.

[la_petite_singe]

I think we all had a Harriet phase! But gurl, if you're gonna write that shit, keep an eye on your notebook! Or at least use better code names or get a lock or SOMETHING.

[(Anonymous)]

Only thing she did wrong as get caught.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know - there was some stuff she did on her daily 'routine' that was pretty questionable. [Like, I remember her climbing into a lift of some sort to over hear what someone was talking about/doing in their own home?] So that stuff was wrong, and while the stuff her friends got upset about wasn't technically a part of that...dude. It *was* pretty mean spirited, and I can understand why they got upset.

[soukup]

(Whatup, favourite-movie-ever-when-I-was-a-kid!)

I did find it kind of ironic, though, that Harriet considered it no big deal to invade the privacy of the people on her spy route (watching them unawares, even sneaking into a private home). But when the tables were turned and it was her privacy that was invaded (her classmates reading her private notebook), she couldn't handle it at all and seemed (if we judge from her vengefulness afterward) to feel it was horribly unfair.

I agree that there's nothing wrong with writing down private thoughts about your friends, though, even ones that aren't necessarily nice. I didn't consider until now that the narrative may have been trying to "punish" her for that, and god, I hope that wasn't the authors' intent. Ick.

[angrymermaids]

As far as getting her notebook stolen and made to apologize, no, she didn't do anything wrong.

But I thought the book (IDK if you're just talking about the movie, but the book is my #1 all-time favorite book so I'm talking about that) was less about her getting punished for that one incident and more about her growing up. She gets knocked down a couple of pegs--not in a "know you place" way, but in an "everyone is a complex and vulnerable person and you need to be more careful about how you treat them" kind of way.

Before the notebook incident, she treated everyone with contempt and didn't realize what she had, not one bit. She took it for granted that she was better than everyone else and she didn't have to treat them like equals. In the process of her humbling, she learns to see people as people and not just funny things to spy on and write about. Sure, her friends did the wrong thing by taking her notebook, but it was ultimately positive for her. If they hadn't done it... it would either happen (worse) later, or she would never have learned anything.

(I still have a secret notebook, lol.)

[(Anonymous)]

I love the book. The movie completely fucked it up.

[(Anonymous)]

The part of the movie where she cuts off the other girl's braid/pony tail still makes me cringe to this day. I just thought it was such a horrible thing to do when you're like, nine, which I think I was when I saw this movie.

Her hair! That takes so long to grow!!

[sachiko_san]

That feel when no one remembers Michelle Trachtenberg was in Pete and Pete.