If you were in Harry Potter's shoes...

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

Wouldn't the whole thing mess with your head so badly?

In the span of only a few hours, you'd not only learn that your whole life had been a cruelly-told lie, but it'd also get flipped completely upside down.

I wouldn't be able to make heads nor tails of anything, and I'd probably wonder if I either hit my head on that damn "room" at my uncle's house or if they had finally fed me rat poison.

I'm obviously overthinking a children's book, but that's the whole fun of it, damn it xD

Anyway! How do you think you'd react if you were in Harry's shoes?

 

[lestagio]

I'd either feel like I'd just gone insane, or be so unable to process anything that I'd just go with it, lol.
It's how a lot of stories are, though. The characters learn something insane and go "Okay, I guess this is a thing now"

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

I'd either feel like I'd just gone insane, or be so unable to process anything that I'd just go with it, lol.
It's how a lot of stories are, though. The characters learn something insane and go "Okay, I guess this is a thing now"

Yeah...

I recently listened to "Fern's School For Wayward Fae" and the main character is like "the hell's this?", then realizes she's stuck and rolls with it. I love it xD

 

[ArchienineZXAdventArchienineZXAdvent's icon]

Mental breakdown

 

[Cu-Neo]

I would choose slytherin immediately

 

[Metalgeareris]

Our theory is that Harry was just tripping balls the whole time and when he's at the train station running into the pillar, passerbys say "oh that's just harry, he thinks he's a wizard". And his friend is a hobo named Hagrid. And Ron is another friend that lives among the rats. And his owl is actually a pigeon.

 

[Tsukishima]

I'd probably be trying to seek comfort from my Emotional-Support Hagrid such as bawling and asking for hugs.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

Now that I think about it... it may be wise to stick around until you learn some heavy metal spells, then make your way back to the Muggle world and rob banks that way.

I mean... who are they going to charge? Houdini? xD

 

[ArchienineZXAdventArchienineZXAdvent's icon]

Now that I think about it... it may be wise to stick around until you learn some heavy metal spells, then make your way back to the Muggle world and rob banks that way.

I mean... who are they going to charge? Houdini? xD

You pretty much can get shooted before you even say the spell

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

You pretty much can get shooted before you even say the spell

Fun fact: Police don't carry guns in England.

 

[LiberoVulpesLiberoVulpes's icon]

I already live like this:

Another esoteric system to learn can't do worse to me anyway.

 

[PupinDaTurd]

I just wouldn't believe it. I'd think this big guy was lying to me for some reason, and maybe my shitty family were in on it for a laugh or something. Maybe I'm being recorded for a prank like Candid Camera. So I'd like, politely pretend I was falling for it but kind of be unresponsive so they couldn't get a big reaction.

 

[Bakuma1997]

I would simply let Voldemort win for what i am concerned once i figure it out, that's God tier manipulation for the sake of a prophecy

 

[JustLooking123]

Anyway! How do you think you'd react if you were in Harry's shoes?

Umm... i suppose i would complain about his shoes smell...

 

[Isegrim]

Now that I think about it... it may be wise to stick around until you learn some heavy metal spells, then make your way back to the Muggle world and rob banks that way.

I mean... who are they going to charge? Houdini? xD

I'm pretty sure the Department of Magical Law enforcement would send someone for messing around with muggles.

I think I'd probably do the same as Harry except I'd probably be a better student.

Maybe I'd give a suggestion to Mr. Weasley in opening a muggle repair shop on the side for extra money. Just imagine, people would come to you with their old stuff, cars, videogame consoles, antique automobiles, all kinds of gadgets needing new parts that need to be replaced but can't because the manufacturer doesn't produce them anymore. All that's needed is a reparo spell and the thing becomes whole again like it never broke. You'd make a fortune in muggle money which can be exchanged in Gringotts for wizard gold.

I said that because that's the one spell I'd really want in real life.

 

[Jimbo_McDumbo]

If I were Harry I'd be obsessed with ideating and innovating wand technology.

Honestly one thing that always got my imagination going in terms of Harry Potter was the mechanics of wands. That the components you're naturally attuned to act like a conductor for the magic. By that logic I always wondered, did a wand have to be a stick?

So maybe if all the key components were there you could put the wand cores into other objects. Like the blade of a sword or the stick of a flying broom. Or you could go for a more covert option and place tiny pieces of the wand into the fingers of a glove. You could even make it into a prosthesis to become a living weapon, remove a bone or two from your fingers with magic and replace the digit with a micro wand.

Frankly Voldemort wouldn't know what hit him.