Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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Did anyone wait for that letter?
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Apr 06, 2012 10:10PM
Question: did anyone grow up believing Hogwarts was real and then cry when they didn't get that letter? My mom told me she was in Gryffindor and my dad was in Slytherin, and I had no reason to think they were lying. They said they couldn't show me their magic because I might be a muggle. Which got me really worried, by the way. I remember September 1st cleary and the overwhelming sense of melancholy I felt when I realized I wasn't going to get that letter. I used to dream endlessy of escaping to that magical world of Hogwarts. I still do really. Just with less hope than before. Anyway, does anyone have any good stories?
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Yeah, I thought I would be a Muggle-Born and waited for my letter. Ofcourse, that didn't happen.I still wait, though I am older. Perhaps they couldn't track me or something.
I think I was in the middle of moving when I turned 11. Probably why they never found me.
Swathika wrote: "Yeah, I thought I would be a Muggle-Born and waited for my letter. Ofcourse, that didn't happen.I still wait, though I am older. Perhaps they couldn't track me or something."
Fallensnow wrote: "I think I was in the middle of moving when I turned 11. Probably why they never found me."
lol probably for both of you
Yeah.... wait a minute, they found Harry?! How come they didn't find me?!?!
I really did believe in it, and I was so sad when I didn't get a letter on my birthday. My friend made one for me though:)
That is the cutest thread ever! Your parents sound amazing...i'm going to get my kids to read and say the same thing to them! :D
Steph wrote: "That is the cutest thread ever! Your parents sound amazing...i'm going to get my kids to read and say the same thing to them! :D"i dont think they are going to like when they finally find out that it actually doesnt exist..!!
Haha kids deal with that stuff well, don't know how young people are on here, but there is one fella all kids have to find out isn't real at some point, and they don't get traumatised for life after :P
Gracie wrote: "Question: did anyone grow up believing Hogwarts was real and then cry when they didn't get that letter? My mom told me she was in Gryffindor and my dad was in Slytherin, and I had no reason to thi..."i wish my parents were cool enough to say that to me.
i didn't have any scope for that since my parents were rooted deeply in reality and considered all of these things as potter rubbish;even now.but i still wish i had got that letter...it would have been so much fun.....
Steph wrote: "That is the cutest thread ever! Your parents sound amazing...i'm going to get my kids to read and say the same thing to them! :D"Haha, it's like the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus. You grow up believing in them and when you find out the truth you're not mad. Just a "little" let down. I'm glad my parents told me HP was real, it left me with some fond memories. I have an idea! You can give them a letter saying they got accepted to their local middle school (that would be kinda mean though).
Kamalika wrote: "i didn't have any scope for that since my parents were rooted deeply in reality and considered all of these things as potter rubbish;even now.but i still wish i had got that letter...it would have ..."Aawww that's kinda sad. My dad's like that, though. My mom told me he was just embarrased that he was in Slytherin and didn't like to talk about it.
i remember waiting for mine, and when i didn't get it i decided to play a really horrible prank on a friend and made one for them which looked very authentic to an 11 year olds eyes...kind of ashamed of it now
Totally! I am still waiting and believe that my owl is very lost and confused and will someday finally figure out where to go (:
I totally remember waiting for that. I sent a letter to Dumbledore in the mail and everything. :(
Me and my friend both waited for the letter, her birthday was before mine and she didn't get one so i became worried and on my birthday i didn't get one either. My theory is that she sent Hogwarts a letter telling them not to accept me :(
i totally did. i feel so mych better knowing im not the only one!
Oh thank God I see you all! It means that I wasn't the only one that missed the letter!
My 11th birthday was a year ago and I'm still waiting for that letter. I believe that my owl just got lost and is still trying to find me (:
Hadley wrote: "My 11th birthday was a year ago and I'm still waiting for that letter. I believe that my owl just got lost and is still trying to find me (:"I believe somebody was out hunting and they shot my owl by accident.
yeah, poor owl :(
Somebody BBQed the owl, I think.
Awww.
Scince I never knew the name of my owl, I call him(her) Barbie Q. Lunch.R.I.P. Barbie Q. Lunch.
lol.
Steph wrote: "That is the cutest thread ever! Your parents sound amazing...i'm going to get my kids to read and say the same thing to them! :D"don't say that! i was heart broken even without my parents saying things like that! my whole 4th grade year was spent with my friends learning everything we could about hogwarts, to no avail
I didn't read Harry Potter before I twelve, so sadly, I didn't grow up with it. But I wish that I had. I wish I had read og watched them earlier on.
man it was like the beatles or the jackson 5 breaking up for me when it ended. every year since i was young my life circled around when a new book or movie would come out, and i cried so hard when i finished the last book and when i saw the movies. mostly with the book and all it's detail. but yeah, it was tragedy for me....still is lol
i saw the last movie in 3 D n when i finished it i was like, "wow" because hp had been such a hughe part of my life since i was 7, i grew up playing quidditich and making potions. I felt like it symbolized the end of my childhood and thought, "It's over. It's all over." I then snapped my glasses in half. I realize now that it's not over (this'll sound melodramatic) because hp will always live on in my heart. Long live Harry Potter!
I'm 23, and I *still* sometimes wish I could get a letter like that. I started reading Harry Potter when I was 10, so you can bet that I hoped that Hogwarts was real.
Well- when Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone (Philosopher's Stone) came out and I bought it when I was nine. Also, I read the first and second book. So I started a count down to when I turned 11. My dad watched Harry Potter with me when I was nine and he told me this: "I'm a wizard.. I went to Hogwarts to Ravenclaw.." and I literally screamed. I was freaking out. But, then he told me, "You may or may not be accepted your mom unfortunately isn't a witch." So then, I sighed. So me and my dad went to make "potions" well actually it was lemonade. And he was stirring and he stirred it really fast and let go of the spoon and he was like, "See I'm magic" and I tried it and I couldn't do that. I was bummed. So my countdown got shorter till my 11th birthday. I had my Harry Potter cake and I creeped down stairs at mid night and sat there waiting by my cake and I was waiting so I got a glass of milk. Waiting for my letter. Then, my dad came out of his room and asked what I was doing. I said, "I'm waiting for my letter..." and he dropped his jaw mouth wide open. Then, he looked at me and poured himself a glass of milk and said, "Hogwarts isn't real... you're not a witch. And the letter isn't coming." Then, I started to cry. So I ran out of the room crying and cried myself to sleep. So I woke up around six o'clock and typed my own letter and found the exact font and I wrote my letter and ran outside and put it in my mail box. But, before I did that I put a stamp on it the Hogwarts wax stamp. Then, I ran in and went to bed (fake slept) I got dressed and me and my dad went to get the mail. He opened the thing and he went through it all and he found the one that said my name on it. He looked at the Hogwarts stamp. And I innocently looked up at him. He handed me the letter and I read it twice. Then, I waved it around acting all excited. "I'm witch." and he was rubbing his eyes like, "But it's not real." and i was like, "I got a letter didn't I?" and I owned him badly so he thinks I'm a witch. But, after September first he was going to fly me to England and take me to King's Cross and all that and I felt bad so I told him I didn't want to go. But, kept waiting and I still am waiting.
Celticgirl wrote: "Yeah.... wait a minute, they found Harry?! How come they didn't find me?!?!"Because he is Harry Potter "the Boy who Lived", and he is top priority.
If you turned eleven between 1991 and 2011, there's a perfectly logical reason your letter hasn't come yet. Thanks to that devious Ms. Rowling, Hogwarts couldn't afford anymore publicity. Have you seen those videos of Muggles attempting to break into platform 9 3/4? They're onto us. So Hogwarts just had to wait until the movies were over, and then allow the craze to die down for a year. There's still hope. Your letter should show up sometime this August.
It's okay. I knew it wasn't real but u cried anyway ;)When they had the exhibition in Seattle for HP I flew there. I had the had put on my head and it said I was in HUFFLEPUFF. Can u believe it? ;)
oh hell yes, I did, right up untill my 12th birthday and then I reluctantly tried to accept that I must be just a muggle. I like Erica's "too-much-publicity-"theory though :) now I keep hoping that I somehow stumble across the wizarding world (maybe some wizard falls in love with me and we have a bunch of kids I can send off to hogwarts :D)
Yes. Although I gave up when I became 10.
You know... well I didn't literally think it was real it's one of those things that is still so real even though it's fake I wrote a letter for my sister when she turned eleven then when I turned eleven she wrote one for me. :) So you could say I really got that letter :)
before i turned 11 i got soooo excited to get my letter! I waited and waited for my birthday to come and then it did come! ...but there was no letter for me :( So i waited for the next day and the next and it still didnt come so i decided to write myself a letter! I found the oldest envelope in the house and tried writing in the best format and style that an eleven year old can have. I wrote it but never actually did deliver it to myself. My dreams were already crushed and knowing that the letter had come from myself and not actually hogwarts was going to crush them even more :(
in our minds, i think every potter fan wanted to get the letter. it was a way to escape into the books that (for a lot of us who started out young) shaped our childhood. i know i waited :)
I was 14 when the first book came out. No way I was gonna get a letter. :(
I was in third grade when I first started to read the series, so I was too young for the letter to arrive. I didn't believe it would though, so no disappointment there ;) plus, in the US, I would technically be waiting for my acceptance to Salem Witches' Institute, not Hogwarts.
I wanted to get the letter sooo badly. I started reading them when I was 9. The letter never came. I still think that it's different in the U.S.A. and magic is a collage or high school. Just wait.....
They just couldn't find me....... :(
Kamalika wrote: "i didn't have any scope for that since my parents were rooted deeply in reality and considered all of these things as potter rubbish;even now.but i still wish i had got that letter...it would have ..."All throughout my childhood, whenever I did anything wrong (like spill a drink or something) my parents would blame it on Harry Potter, they'd be like, "IF YOU GOT YOUR HEAD OUT OF HARRY POTTER LAND THEN THIS SORT OF THING WOULD NOT HAPPEN!"
You would think they would be happy I was reading, I still don't understand their problem.
I'm still holding out hope that the US school still sends letters out to 44 year-olds.
my birthday was just after the battle of Hogwarts, they must of just been too busy to notice me. Their loss
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