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TL/DR: We have raised our almost 8 yr old daughter to believe she’s a Witch from an old Wizarding family. We’re looking for more sophisticated and creative ideas from the r/HarryPotier community to keep this thing going.
Since our daughter was 5 and my wife and | first started reading her the Harry Potter books we have told her that she is a witch and that the Wizarding World is real. She is almost 8 and as her questions have gotten deeper, we’ve kept building the illusion with more details about our family genealogy and its connection to book characters, stories about times we used magic (and the life and moral lessons we learned about it). She has processed many difficult subjects like racism, climate change and even the Coronavirus through this lens.
Before other parents judge or lecture :We know it’s gas-lighting and that eventually she’ll have be disappointed and have trust issues with us when she learns the truth. We justify it that we are adding magic to her childhood, and giving her motivation to reach her full (magical) potential (since she needs to study hard to be accepted to Hogwarts). We’ve asked serious questions of her teachers and they think it’s more awesome and creative than damaging. (At the very worst case, my take is that it’s analogous to children being raised to believe that traditional religious stories are true and that when the truth hits it will teach her to ask critical questions and not accept everything she hears or reads at face value.)
We’re looking for more ideas for how to inject little bits of Harry Potter magic into every day life using technology, crafts and adding more details to the fanfic that is our lives
Treating your kid like its a fan-fiction character… this should be considered child abuse. That kid’s gonna have difficulty socializing after she starts casting spells on her classmates and thinking she comes from a family of wizards.
yep, we gonna ban this series under socialism
They are fucking with her mind when they tell her this kind of shit. She’s going to grow up unable to distinguish reality and fantasy, have a personality disorder, require deprogramming to unlearn this fantasy, or all three. Or maybe even more than this. This is probably worse than being an orphan in some ways because then nobody is putting fantasy bullshit into their minds. Fantastical thinking is usually a coping mechanism or sign of a mental disorder but the parents causing it intentionally is new. These are the kinds of families who keep therapists, psychologists, and psychiatrists in business!
