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So a friend and I watched the last Harry Potter movie, Deathly Hallows Part 2, tonight. I asked him who his favorite Harry Potter character is. He said Snape, before he went soft. He liks mean, badass, sassy Snape. I told him I liked Harry Potter. His reaction of course, like most people I tell this to, was "But Harry's a little bitch!" (sometimes people usually roll their eyes)
But I decided to explain why I liked Harry so much, and he decided to listen.
I like Harry because he is the kid bullied at school for the dumbest reasons. I was the kid bullied at school for pretty much the same reasons. Teachers liked me, I did the work, I hung out with the geeky kids, and I wasn't interested in the same things the other kids were.
As Harry gets older, people pick on him for not doing enough to save the world, or for saving someone and then everyone calls him the great chosen one and all the other kids get jealous. There really wasn't any win for Harry. No matter what he did his schoolmates weren't happy.
Same boat. So I related a lot to Harry as a kid. I was called Harry Potter kid in high school my freshman year. But that beat most nicknames. I mean, Harry Potter was cool to me.
Also Harry gets really frustrated around mid-saga, like the 4th and 5th books. He starts to really shout and fight back to the bullies. I wasn't raised to start fights in the schoolyard, like Harry did, but I started doing my own backlashing. You really can only take so much of it. I started to focus much more on my studies and what my teachers wanted (which didn't help the teacher's pet part) but I also started to make snappy comebacks to kids, and my freshmen year my sister and I defended a group of other freshmen girls against a bunch of seniors. We were calm and collected and in a very polite way told them to fuck off. We weren't scared of them, and sophomore year I found out quickly that no one bothered to mess with us anymore. We found a bunch of new friends and all went well. Freshmen year of high school was the last year I was picked on by bullies.
So like Harry, you start forgetting the bullies because they are never going to change. You have to change yourself. You have to stop caring about them and start focusing on my important things. And like Harry had Ron and Hermione, I had Lauren and my new friends.
Looking like Harry followed me through high school into college, and now even my daycare kids say I look like Harry Potter. I don't mind at all.
But I decided to explain why I liked Harry so much, and he decided to listen.
I like Harry because he is the kid bullied at school for the dumbest reasons. I was the kid bullied at school for pretty much the same reasons. Teachers liked me, I did the work, I hung out with the geeky kids, and I wasn't interested in the same things the other kids were.
As Harry gets older, people pick on him for not doing enough to save the world, or for saving someone and then everyone calls him the great chosen one and all the other kids get jealous. There really wasn't any win for Harry. No matter what he did his schoolmates weren't happy.
Same boat. So I related a lot to Harry as a kid. I was called Harry Potter kid in high school my freshman year. But that beat most nicknames. I mean, Harry Potter was cool to me.
Also Harry gets really frustrated around mid-saga, like the 4th and 5th books. He starts to really shout and fight back to the bullies. I wasn't raised to start fights in the schoolyard, like Harry did, but I started doing my own backlashing. You really can only take so much of it. I started to focus much more on my studies and what my teachers wanted (which didn't help the teacher's pet part) but I also started to make snappy comebacks to kids, and my freshmen year my sister and I defended a group of other freshmen girls against a bunch of seniors. We were calm and collected and in a very polite way told them to fuck off. We weren't scared of them, and sophomore year I found out quickly that no one bothered to mess with us anymore. We found a bunch of new friends and all went well. Freshmen year of high school was the last year I was picked on by bullies.
So like Harry, you start forgetting the bullies because they are never going to change. You have to change yourself. You have to stop caring about them and start focusing on my important things. And like Harry had Ron and Hermione, I had Lauren and my new friends.
Looking like Harry followed me through high school into college, and now even my daycare kids say I look like Harry Potter. I don't mind at all.