the influence of harry potter on my son?

[bananaandcustard]

my son 23yrs pointed out the window to a bird and asked 'is that a threstral'?

A thestral is a creature from harry potter I wondered what else my son thought might be real ?
He is, after all the first generation who was exposed to harry potter.

what other side effects have others seen in their children who are under the influence of harry potter?

[Musicaltheatremum]

The wish to apparate. Especially when I have to get out of bed in the morning and I am 51.

[HolyTerror]

He just mispronounced 'kestrel'? I hope.

[Redhead11]

I would love a spell that tidied the house - and i'm 49.

[AtlanticDrift]

My dc are all under the assumption that there are house elves working here

[TripTrapTripTrapOverTheBridge]

My darling autistic son,on his 11th birthday (Potter party aswell!) was patiently waiting for Hagrid to knock my front door down to take him to Hogwarts

I know of another autistic child who ended up choosing to go to a special residential school because he decided it would be like Hogwarts

[esiotrot2015]

my 10 year old is still waiting for a letter from Hogwarts which makes discussing which secondary school he'd like to go to pretty hard

[Silvercatowner]

My son is 26 and still lives in hope of his invitation letter to Hogwarts.

[atticusclaw]

Ha, we have a sign up in the utility room reminding the DSs that we don't have a house elf and they still think we do!

[theRotcod]

I'm 27 and I AK shizzle that gets on my wizzle.

[theRotcod]

Avada Kedavra!

[SmallBee]

I'm 30 & I'm sure my letter must have got lost in the muggle post.
They'll realise their mistake soon

[turdfairynomore]

No house elves here either-but I've been scarier than Voldemort at times when my kids think they exist!

[TripTrapTripTrapOverTheBridge]

Silver and Small If you go on eBay and order a HP quill pen you get sent a free ticket for the Hogwarts Express with it. That order was a BIG mistake

[londonrach]

I want a chocolate frog?

[MissHJ]

Haha I love this. I am a year younger than your son and love Harry Potter. Have done since it first came out. Won tickets to see the first one by dressing as a character. Proud moment for my 9 year old self. However no lasting effects I think, although I am desperate to visit the Harry potter store at King's Cross station this week

[LilMissVixen]

I regularly find myself muttering 'accio remote' or 'accio tea' when I'm sitting comfortably and don't want to move to get something out of my reach.

[LongDistanceLove]

I'm 29, and I'm sure the owl delivering my letter got lost idiot.

[EbwyIsUpTheDuff]

ten years ago I had a brain haemorrhage.. I'd been reading the Potter books just prior and my misfiring brain kept saying spells from them - for example, when a nurse dropped a tray my brain said "scourgify!" which I knew was wrong for this reality but couldn't say anything else properly for ages!

[LadyIsabellaWrotham]

The thriving UK and US university Muggle Quidditch scene is evidence that a lot of teens who've been reading Potter all their life leave the hell that is secondary school PE and decide "Yes, I want to do some sports at uni, but no I'm not going to settle for sodding football/netball. I've wanted to play Quidditch all my life and Quidditch I will bloody well play!"

[CatsClaus]

I'd love one of those clocks that Molly Weasely has to know where they all are.

[Annunziata]

We have a wand instead of a TV remote. I don't know how DS1 managed that, but since his letter still hasn't come either (24 going on 11....) I am quite sure he's not a wizard.

[Pointlessfan]

I would love a pet owl, a tidying up spell would be awesome too and I'd like to give polyjuice potion to someone else so they could impersonate me at work!

[MissHJ]

Snapechat the first book came out in 1997 and I was genuinely reading it when it first came out. I was a very advanced reader. Many of my friends also had the books read to them by parents or on audio tapes

[slithytove]

I would have thought a 6 year old could easily read Harry potter, at least the first couple of books
I was ten when it came out so grew up with Harry.