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My life is just a string of one embarrassing moment after another. Usually I can forget and move past these moments, but two Harry Potter influenced ones are regrettably well-remembered.
One of the first moments took place shortly after viewing the first Harry Potter movie; I was in the first grade. My dad had rented a copy from Blockbuster (RIP), and I loved it but was so confused by the British accents. I went to school telling everyone about the “foreign film” I had seen and I was shocked to learn that Harry Potter was actually quite popular. I felt like such a fool for thinking that I had been so special to come across such a great “foreign film.”
The other moment occurred not too long after the foreign film incident. My brother and I had made a hobby out of mimicking Ron’s British accent, specifically the phrase “Bloody hell, Harry.” We would prance around our house saying that phrase over and over again, clueless to the fact that it was actually a curse word. It was only after screaming “Bloody hell, Harry” in a public setting that our parents cued us in on the true meaning. Even at the young age that I was, I knew to be embarrassed by our unintentional sailor mouths.
That's hilarious! Thanks for sharing these moments with us :D
ReplyDeleteI have never thought of HP as a foreign film before. That cracks me up. Technically, it is a foreign film because it is from a different country than your own. But it's so familiar nobody thinks of it as "foreign".
As a kid, I also tried mimicking a British accent which also involved adding that particular swear word to my sentences. Only I was copying a character from a Mary-Kate and Ashley soccer movie. Now that's embarrassing.lol
Looking back now, I do have a good laugh about all of it. And, yeah, technically it is true that HP is a foreign film haha! So I guess I shouldn't feel too embarrassed about that. Aww, haha, Mary-Kate and Ashley were like my role models when I was little! I have a bunch of their movies on VCR tapes lol. Melissa and I would watch those movies constantly.
DeleteI love it! I was much older when I saw the film so nothing like that happened with me, though I could surely see how it could! I have three wands at our house and my son would have his friend come stay the night and shout charms and spells at each other. One night they got in an argument about a spell and who was correctly saying it. My son thought he was right because he had read the books and his friend had only seen the movies, until I butted in to tell them that the one they were arguing about wasn't a spell at all in HP.
ReplyDeleteOmg, that's so hilarious! It's so great that they love HP enough to argue about spells. It sounds like something that my siblings and I would've done, lol!
DeleteThose are actually quite adorable moments, probably still embarrassing for you but I find them rather endearing. :) If you had been older, it might have been a different story but the fact that you were in first grade makes me giggle for some reason. I love the innocence of little kids.
ReplyDeleteHaha, yeah, I can't judge myself too harshly because at the time I didn't know any better. :)
DeleteLOL these are awesome and adorable. I know I'd feel as embarrassed as you do/did if they happened to me as a kid, but reading about it now is just endearing :) I only read the series as an adult, when the series was already becoming well-known so nothing like that happened to me but I enjoyed reading these and imagining what embarrassing things I would have done if I'd been a kid when I read the series LOL
ReplyDeleteLol, I'm sure I would've had some embarrassing moments even if I had been older when I first read the series and watched the movies. :)
DeleteLOL =D, no..I sh-shouldn't laugh at your embarrassing moments like that, but they are just so adorable :D. Although technically, Harry Potter is a foreign film and foreign books, so you were technically right. But that would be so embarrassing because no one would think of them as foreign films, they are just Harry Potter.
ReplyDeleteI kind of did something similar to the Bloody Hell moment when I was little. It was before I knew about swear words and I just repeated whatever I heard. And I heard the word Dammit and I was in a store with my mom and I shouted it with all of my force and everyone around me stopped and my mom was like you can't say that. It was funny =D
Hahaha, little kids say words all the time without knowing the meaning, so I kind of excuse children with potty mouths. I know for sure that bloody hell wasn't the only curse word that I was reprimanded about saying at that age, lol.
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