pick a star on the dark horizon, and follow the light.

[intrikate88]

So I suppose this is a bad time to admit to the internets at large that my childhood was not really defined by Harry Potter. I was never waiting for my Hogwarts letter. I don't feel like I'm at the end of an era. I'll see the movie, but I'm not lining up tonight.

I mean, not that I don't like Harry Potter. (Well, actually the boy himself is rather

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[rthstewart]

I spent my childhood looking for closets with Narnia in them, or at least a decent secret tunnel with murder mysteries stretching back to the Underground Railroad.
I used to wear sensible shoes in case I did find a magical doorway to Narnia or Oz or Prydain... You know, just in case. I knew it wasn't remotely rational, but if it WAS, a girl had to be prepared. I often kept a lunch box with me with a peanut butter sandwich and some milk too. Just in case, you know, because you'd want something to carry the fish you caught in something other than Edmund's hat.

[intrikate88]

One must be ready for anything! Nobody wants to be that clueless person in the book.

Even now I don't buy a pair of heels I can't run in. People think it's hilarious to go shoe shopping with me. But hey, you never know where you might end up!

[thunderemerald]

Yeah, I definitely got into HP too late to wait for my Hogwarts letter.

But I did NOT get into it too late to write slashfic.

[theonlytwin]

i was totally a sensible shoes and open road kid too. doctor who had always been there, but i did all the other things in my trademark backasswards way: read discworld first, everything that discworld was making fun of second, including narnia and moorcock and so on. harry potter was never my scene. i didn't even read the last book. high five for not caring about the movie. there is nothign wrong with sounding like sarah jane smith, she is awesome.