Kids: Today, my daughter turned 11. Since she LOVES Harry Potter, I...

By notawizard - 16/07/2009 10:16 - Spain

Today, my daughter turned 11. Since she LOVES Harry Potter, I decided to write her an acceptance letter to Hogwarts. When she saw the letter, she screamed and showed me. When she found out I wrote it, she told me she hated me, started crying, and stepped on my foot. FML

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By Anonymous - 18/10/2014 19:29 - United Kingdom

Today, my 9-year-old daughter was acting out and wouldn't do her homework. I told her that if she didn't study, she wouldn't get her acceptance letter from Hogwarts. She looked into my eyes, straight through to my soul and said, "Hogwarts isn't real, retard." FML

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By makeitstop - 04/08/2011 13:41 - United Kingdom

Today, my daughter wouldn't stop yapping on about not being able to register on the new Harry Potter website. The amount of whiny jibber-jabber emanating from her cake-hole made me want to boot her from our family tree, and I had to resort to booze to wash the pain away. I'm a terrible parent. FML

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By obnum - 24/05/2013 12:26 - United States - New York

Today, after months of being pestered to do so, I finally read the first Harry Potter book. I hated it. Upon hearing this, my girlfriend posted the fact on Facebook, where I immediately received tons of abuse and eventual shunning by my friends, family, and coworkers. My girlfriend just laughed. FML

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By yingyang2 - 06/01/2011 02:19 - United States

Today, I have been teaching my 5 year-old step-daughter how to read and write. She came bounding up to me with a piece of paper and said, "look what I did". It was a letter that said "My dad misses my real mommy, not you". FML

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By Anonymous - 28/05/2023 20:00 - Australia

Today, It's been a few months since I started reading the Harry Potter books to my daughter. She told me a list of all her favorite characters. I didn't have the heart to tell her that every single one of them dies by the end of the seventh book. FML

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Today, my stepmom burned all my Harry Potter stuff. Apparently, Harry Potter is the "Devil’s plan to corrupt good Christian children" and "That shit is make believe anyway." What did my dad ever see in this evil witch? FML

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By Jill - 15/06/2013 04:19 - United States - Santa Rosa

Today, I was going through my daughter's contacts, except all of them had names from Harry Potter. I found the name "Mom." I was relieved I didn't have some silly name, until I realized it wasn't my number; it was her father's new wife. My number was under "Voldemort." FML

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By whoahshloann - 30/05/2009 23:48 - United States

Today, I was watching Harry Potter. When all the students at Hogwarts started to clap at one point, I started clapping myself. FML

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By Lisa - 16/12/2014 03:38 - United States - Lees Summit

Today, my 5-year-old daughter was asked by her teacher to write a letter to each member of her family to read during the holidays. Her letter to me said, "Dear mommy, come on. You could have done better than dad." FML

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By Anonymous - 11/06/2014 21:38 - Australia - Granville

Today, I took a look at my 9-year-old daughter's diary, thinking it would be full of cute stuff. Instead, it was full of hateful rants against me and my husband, as well the boys at her school, who she called gay because none of them ever hit on her. It seems I've failed as a parent. FML

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pedegg 0

Thursday 16 July 2009 18:40

Okay, everyone seems to be forgetting that eleven year olds ARE idiots. Even if they know the book is fiction, they still WANT it to be real- and if the outside world gives them a glimpse of hope that maybe it's more than fiction, they WILL believe it because they WANT it to be real. I waited for my Hogwarts letter when I was turning eleven. I didn't really think I'd get one, and when I didn't I wasn't crushed, but if I HAD gotten one I'd probably have shit myself. This mother obviously has never been obsessed with something like 11 year olds can be with this book series. That, or she's just a bitch. She should have known better than to have made the poor kid think she was going off to live in a magical world and then taken it away. That's horrible. Just take her to see the damn movie.

mynameisnotjudie 0

Thursday 16 July 2009 16:06

WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!?!?!?!?! Ugg I can't even begin to tell you how terrible that is. The poor little girl! An eleven year old really has no way of knowing that was fake because the excitement blinds them ;- )

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k_cool 0

Thursday 16 July 2009 17:57

that was a terrible idea!

barroomhero 0

Thursday 16 July 2009 17:57

Well, at least you had the right intentions. (and how many people will actually admit they secretly wished for their Hogwarts when they turned 11?)

m0nicam0nster 0

Thursday 16 July 2009 17:58

**** all of you at 11 i wanted so badly to believe in these things, even if common sense told me they didnt exist. so a letter from Hogwarts?? I would've done the same thing. shes only 11, this was a horrendous idea plus, who pulls a ******* PRANK on someone when it's their BIRTHDAY? lame and low.

lcsun69 0

Thursday 16 July 2009 18:01

For everyone saying it was mean... OP never said she TOLD her daughter that she had written it, just that she found out. I don't think she actually confessed to writing it. And it's a cute idea, whether she believed it or not.

effmylifexx 0

Thursday 16 July 2009 23:51

that's even worse....just letting your kid continue to think that they were going to hogwarts?

Chubtubdaplaya 0

Thursday 16 July 2009 18:03

The real FYL here is that your 11 year old daughter believes that Harry Potter and his school of wizards exists.

lorchan 0

Thursday 16 July 2009 18:06

I can see the FYL and the YDI in the situation... for one, it was a nice thought, and you didn't mean to give her false hope, you just meant to put a smile on her face. For another... well... You see, young kids get into this shit. My best friend and I in primary school? We actually talked each other into believing it was all real. We would even sometimes talk about how great it would be when we turned eleven and went to hogwarts. There's the YDI. But here's the reason you didn't deserve it: We grew up. We all but forgot about hogwarts. We still enjoyed the movies (while they were good) and talked, on ocassion, about the book, but we stopped wishing for that letter. Then I remember one night when I was twelve, I came across some Harry Potter fanfiction, and my heart sank. I realized that that place I believed in when I was eight hadn't accepted me. It couldn't; because it wasn't there. It hurts, but your daughter has to realize it sometime. She'll forgive you, trust me. It's actually quite nice that she got a time she could believe. She'll remember it in a fond light, I promise.

smithkicker18 0

Thursday 16 July 2009 18:07

It's the OP's fault all the way. I'm 13 and I'm obsessed with HP. Of course I know it isn't real, but I still have dreams that I get an acceptance letter in the mail. I would've done a lot more than step on my parent's foot and said I hate you if they had done that. She isn't stupid, she just has a good imagination. YDI =P

Jake5454 0

Thursday 16 July 2009 18:15

how did you think she was goin to react when she found out that it wasn't real, that was just mean

weekendisout 0

Thursday 16 July 2009 18:16

That's a cute idea. Man, what's the deal with the kid believing Hogwarts is real? She gonna run into a brick wall trying to get to Platform 9 3/4 next? Worry about that.

effmylifexx 0

Thursday 16 July 2009 23:55

seriously. YDI. sure, an 11 year old should know that Hogwarts isn't real...but what made you think it was a good idea to enforce the idea that it WAS real by sending her a letter. if i had gotten an acceptance letter when i turned 11, and then found out it wasn't even real, i would be completely crushed. it was just a bad idea overall.