Did anyone wait for that letter?

[Nat]

Didn't we all?

[ѕтαяк]

lol yes

[Rachael]

I made one for my best friend's 11th birthday, with the green ink and everything...

[Rachel]

Erica wrote: "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 ..."

This made me like... just ridiculously happy. And here I was worried my letter was lost forever!

[[deleted user]]

Yeah, still waiting. I reckon my owl was forgetful, like Errol, and got lost. Dumbledore was never notified of the mishap and my magical abilities lie dormant until the day that my letter arrives... :)

[Ayah]

i new it wasnt real but i still waited and even wrote my own and sent it so my self

[Carla]

Wow - so I wasn't the only one who went through this heart break!

[CCPOTTER]

My birthday is in the middle of September so when it came along I sat at my window waiting for an owl to come. When it didn't I cried and read Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban probably 15 times that day.

[Shobhit]

I also waited for it. I even used to practice beforehand so I don't look dumb when I'm once their as I would have been muggle born. I used to take a stick and do the spelks. I specialised wingardium leviosia(sorry if spelling wrong). But sadly no letter arrived. Maybe my owl slept on its way and then forgot where it had to go.

[Himika]

I kept looking out for owls after I finished reading the first book.

[Marko]

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 thin..."

Just because it was in our heads doesn't mean it wasn't real.

[ThatoneHufflepuff]

Jeni wrote: "I'm still holding out hope that the US school still sends letters out to 44 year-olds."

Don't worry It takes a while for the owls to fly across the atlantic (because they can't apparate)

[[deleted user]]

I so did - after feeling the emotional blow of not getting one, when my brother was old enough to be accepted, I pulled out and blew the dust off of my old copy of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. I copied the letter onto a sheet of resume paper and the supply lists onto another. I actually had him fooled for a few minutes ("Hey, is Hogwarts actually REAL?"). But unfortunately, emotional blow. It's Hogwarts' fault for not accepting us. I can do a mean LeviOsa. :)