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[cabari]

I've been rewatching the Harry Potter films these past few days, and I've been having this unbearable sense of nostalgia and longing. The longing is at least identifiable in that, my god I want Harry Potter to be a real thing, like, I want to be a wizard. I'm 32 and I still wish that I'd gotten my acceptance letter to... um I guess it would have

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[iibnf]

It was a good time in fandom.

[nara_cat]

HP wasn't my first fandom or my last fandom, but it was really the only one where I felt like we were all of us gleefully immersed in this crazy, wonderful, off-kilter world. It's funny that you should write this now (and OMG, it's you!), because I was recently thinking about the fandom and how I just haven't had the desire/energy/time to write anything since then... but it's not really a difference in the desire/energy/time (all right, maybe a little) as much as a loss of that lovely, lovely atmosphere where were were all pretending together so hard that it almost felt real. (Keeping in mind that I've always been such a lurker that people had to beat down my pixelated door to make me interact, so a lot of this was happening in my own head.) I don't feel any different, but I must be. I miss it. I'm glad that you wrote this and made me think about it some more.

Anyway, I'm still waiting for my letter, too. I always will be. Let me know if you ever get yours, okay?