[HPFGU-OTChatter] Hogwarts letters (from HPFGU)

[Mrs.) Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force]

[kjirstem wrote]:
| No kidding!  I think my seven-year-old would stop speaking to me if
| she knew I thought it was more important to study math than magic.
|
| I think the reason this thread (on the main list) interests me is
| because of my daughter's continued belief that she'll get to go to
| Hogwarts someday.  She was convinced she'd be going this year, since
| her best friend had said that was the case and her best friend is
| infallible.  It is interesting to listen to her thoughts about what
| she would miss in the Muggle world; she's gotten around the fear of
| leaving home and family by deciding that I would be going too, as an
| assistant to McGonagall.

[Lee]:
Ah--being seven again...what a lovely thought!  Things were so much simpler
then, weren't they? :-)

I was a huge believer in fairy tales and was convinced I had fairies living
in my ear.  The imagination is such a wonderful place and I seriously
believe that many an adult loses something wonderful by training imagination
away. :-) That's why I never really grew up! <LOL>

Now, I'd still love to go to Hogwarts as a Muggle Studies teacher...think
that would work?  Perhaps I never got there when I was 11 because...well...I
don' know... But my being 11 was 34 years ago and, maybe, if I promise to
take extra courses and such, maybe I'd still get in??? Maybe??? :-))

[kjirstem continues]:

| She knows HP is pretend, if she bothers to think about it, so I see no
| reason to take away her fun.  I hope she isn't terribly dissappointed
| a few years from now.

[Lee]:
IMO, if kids have a good, stable foundation, they'll know, and won't be as
disappointed as one might think, provided the issue isn't pushed.  I can say
from my own experience that my discovery of Christmas presents and figuring
out what a couple of them were was more of an intrigue than a
disappointment...and that was when I was nine.  It was like something
clicked...I can't really explain it right, but there was a sort of,
"Oh--Okay," kind of thing.

Suffice it to say that I still love Santa, and it's fun to be one as well as
to receive from one. :-)

Fortunately, I had a Mom who was a great imaginator, too; she was a loving
and very fun person who was loved by everyone she encountered.  I still
think she may have been part witch--a healing witch--because it seemed as
though anything or any one who was lost, hurt, needing love, somehow always
homed in on my Mom...and I'm talking about strangers as well as friends.
And she was always available with hugs, comfort, laughter.

Gracious! Let me stop rambling here! :-)

Here's to imagination!

Cheers,
Lee :-)

Do not walk behind me,    | Lee Storm
I may not care to lead;   | N2FGC
Do not walk before me;    | n2fgc at arrl.net (or)
I may not care to follow; | n2fgc at optonline.net
Walk beside me, and be my friend.