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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By Hellassi - 09/07/2021 00:01

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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kath91 0

Thursday 16 July 2009 17:20

When I was 11, I knew the difference between reality and story books, but still secretly hoped I might get a Hogwarts letter.

aback 4

Thursday 16 July 2009 17:22

Keep her away from romance novels. If she gets to thinking those are real she has the potential not to just **** up her own life, but the lives of her husband and your future grandkids, too. Keep an eye on that one.

Mata_Hari 0

Friday 17 July 2009 22:25

Rofl, very true. Not the best comment on this thread, but in the Top Ten...

nolubba1037 0

Thursday 16 July 2009 17:25

tape the reaction and post it on youtube then ud b famous

ImAPoet 0

Thursday 16 July 2009 17:26

Are you NUTS? How could you do that? She's eleven, she has dreamed about that scene for sooooooo long and now you just go, write a letter and disappoint her. I, and I am old enough to know it's not real, still think the owls couldn't find my house when I turned 11. You totally deserve it. If I were your daughter, I would never, NEVER, forgive you.

Tlizzle 0

Thursday 16 July 2009 19:47

Exactly.

yourporcelainx 0

Thursday 16 July 2009 17:26

when I was 11 i also hoped for a hogwarts letter... and i would also have been pretty upset if my mom did that. nice gesture, but you shouldn't get ur kid's hopes up like that.

saminess714 0

Thursday 16 July 2009 17:31

I wanted a letter when I turned 11. :( It never came. This is both FYL and YDI. FYL because your daughter actually thought it was real. YDI because every 11 year old Harry Potter fan wants a letter that was kind of mean.

carmela93 0

Thursday 16 July 2009 17:32

i wanted one so bad when i was 11 :L i loved HP so much i would have believed it :) she must have been so upset :(

vers_fml 0

Thursday 16 July 2009 17:32

my mother actually wrote me a hogwart's letter when i was 11, and tried to get me to believe it, but unlike the OP's daughter, i have the ability to discern fiction from reality. So, i just laughed and went about my birthday. It was fun, and i loved HP, but i wasn't about to fall for it. All 11-year-olds aren't stupid, people.

Ibeapirate 0

Thursday 16 July 2009 17:35

FYL for having a daughter who can't distinguish between reality and fantasy. And #120, it WAS Harry's 11th birthday when he received his letter. Fail. She did it right.