{"id":4274,"date":"2021-04-28T20:24:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T01:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=4274"},"modified":"2021-04-28T20:24:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T01:24:49","slug":"the-history-of-me-part-xxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=4274","title":{"rendered":"The History of Me, Part XXI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alright, let’s think more a bit about Harry Potter<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Harry Potter<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n

Just the obvious stuff is enough to cause a lot of puzzlement. The Potter <\/em>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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Yeah, weird.<\/p>\n

Potter has a telepathic connection with Tom- Tom Riddle, Lord Voldemort. Not Tom Jacobsen. … I think. Maybe.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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…<\/p>\n

wait.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Damn it, I just don’t know.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Could I have? Maybe I combined my own memories of school, my love for wizardry, British stuff I got from Masterpiece Theatre<\/em>, and came up with something like Potter<\/em>, and that was used as a basis for… at least some of it?<\/p>\n

Kinda? <\/p>\n

IDK, but there is an interesting line from the last Potter <\/em>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.<\/p>\n