Alright, let’s think more a bit about Harry Potter.
Harry Potter is a very, very tough puzzle to put together. There are so many crazy strands here going in so many different directions that a proper mapping of them all would take years- and I haven’t even read the books.
Just the obvious stuff is enough to cause a lot of puzzlement. The Potter wikia reveals that Harry and I are the same age, and the prophecy of Voldemort’s downfall involved a boy born in July, 1980. I was born in February, of course.
Similar, but not the same- although I recently looked through my old pictures of me in my youth and I did look quite a lot like Potter, down to the glasses, and the infamous scar. Well, ok. And I did do that snake- talking thing Potter did, too, although in my case it was with a komodo dragon. Both occurrences were in a zoo, of course.
Thinking now, I looked more than “quite a lot” like Potter. I was extremely similar to him in appearance when I was a kid. Also in personality. And, I guess, in social class, geographic differences notwithstanding.
Yeah, weird.
Potter has a telepathic connection with Tom- Tom Riddle, Lord Voldemort. Not Tom Jacobsen. … I think. Maybe.
Tom Riddle hated Hermione, I love Emma Watson. She literally is probably my all time favorite. I guess that’s your difference. I guess, but geez, what a tiny world we are navigating in, here.
Of course I fantasized about wizards when I was young. Brits, too, often, since I watched lots of PBS with my parents. Did I ever combine the two? Beats me; I don’t remember, although I suppose it is very, very possible. I just don’t remember, although…
wait.
Yes, actually. Yes I did. Kinda? I don’t know. But I… I don’t know. I mean I’m trying to remember it and something is there on the tip of my mind but I just don’t know if it fits. I mean… it can’t, based on what I’m remembering. Can it? Kinda? I don’t know.
Damn it, I just don’t know.
I mean certainly I didn’t dream up that whole world and all of the stuff in it, of course, but the concepts, I mean… I… I don’t know.
Could I have? Maybe I combined my own memories of school, my love for wizardry, British stuff I got from Masterpiece Theatre, and came up with something like Potter, and that was used as a basis for… at least some of it?
Kinda?
IDK, but there is an interesting line from the last Potter flick, when Harry and Tom are dueling. Potter says “Come on Tom, let’s finish this the way we started it- together!” before grabbing him and launching the both of them off a ledge at Hogwarts.
Go to about 2:55 here.
Well… you know what I said about some movies using the names “Tom” “Jake”, etc. as surreptitious ways to break the third wall and address me directly? Is this perhaps one of those times? I don’t know. Maybe.
I wonder.
I wish I knew.
Hmmn… you know…
Nah. This is for another day.