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omg i hope u filmed that so you could show her the film in the future and laugh at her
i don't see why everyone thinks that an eleven year old is not supposed to have an imagination... everyone is talking on this thread about the technicalities of harry potter and how the maturity level of an eleven year old can relate to realizing that a book about magic isn't real... it was a cute gift to give someone and she overreacted, it's like realizing santa isn't real; everyone believed santa was real until someone told them or they matured and realized... not everyone matures as quick as "everyone". i'm fifteen now and i'm sure as shit when i was eleven i would have been so excited to get a letter from hogwarts... given that, i wouldn't cry and kick my dad if he gave me something like that.
i don't see why everyone thinks that an eleven year old is not supposed to have an imagination... everyone is talking on this thread about the technicalities of harry potter and how the maturity level of an eleven year old can relate to realizing that a book about magic isn't real... it was a cute gift to give someone and she overreacted, it's like realizing santa isn't real; everyone believed santa was real until someone told them or they matured and realized... not everyone matures as quick as "everyone". i'm fifteen now and i'm sure as shit when i was eleven i would have been so excited to get a letter from hogwarts... given that, i wouldn't cry and kick my dad if he gave me something like that.
I understand that everyone thinks this eleven year old should have known it wasn't real, but I have to admit: on my eleventh birthday, I secretly hoped I might get a letter. I'm not going to lie, I was just a little sad when it didn't come.
i think that was a really sweet thing to do. It's not your fault she doesn't understand hogwarts isn't real. FYL
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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.
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 ;- )