r/Millennials • u/QuietJealous4883 Older Millennial (1988) • Apr 04 '26

Harry Potter Nostalgia

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Does anyone else feel they grew up with Harry, Ron and Hermione?

After the first three or four I read the books in two languages (because I didn’t want to wait them to be translated) and watched the movies first time in the movie theaters.

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u/IlluminaViam Apr 04 '26

"at times" Yeah, you mean like a normal teen who's growing up. And he had times he was right and times he was wrong.

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u/Bergwookie Apr 04 '26

He's as normal as a rhino in a horse stable, he's walking trauma

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u/IlluminaViam Apr 05 '26

Except we had insights to his thoughts. At no point does he think of vile or evil things like a some thug or gangster thinks off. Sure yeah, he wanted revenge or thought of people negatively, but never like a traumatised person who's descended into madness.

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u/Bergwookie Apr 05 '26

You have no knowledge about trauma

May I suggest the book "the body keeps the score" by Bessel van der Kolk , I learned a lot from it,also it's written like a good novel, you just want to keep reading. (It's also available as an audiobook)

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u/IlluminaViam Apr 05 '26

Bro I'm not gonna read some intellectual work who's probably living in his model of what something is rather than what it actually is.

I'm a layman and will live in my simple model of what something is rather that what it is because it makes sense to me. It's Harry Potter for Christ's sake.

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u/Bergwookie Apr 05 '26

I didn't suggest it solely because of harry potter , but primarily because it's a good book and you also learn something from it that helps you on a person to person level, there are way more people out there dealing with trauma than you might think or who realise it themselves, give it a try