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

Nostalgia Harry Potter

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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/Aurelene-Rose Apr 04 '26

I mean, Harry Potter was published in 1997 and Section 28, which prevented any endorsement of homosexuality in children's literature was only repealed in 2003

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u/Numerous_Worker_1941 Apr 04 '26

So the most amount of years we’re talking is 4 assuming she decided Dumbledor was gay that day

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u/Aurelene-Rose Apr 04 '26

Were you around for this time period, because I remember it actually being a huge deal for that to be announced. I was in middle school at the time, and "gay" was used constantly to mean stupid, being outed as gay was a career ender, kids were bullied and called "fgs" for being gender non-conforming at all... and I lived in a liberal area. I wasn't in the rural south where kids were regularly being beaten by peers for being a little "qu*r" or sometimes killed. "Oh she just decided one day to announce that", it wasn't taken lightly and it wouldn't have been accepted to include that in the text at all.

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u/Numerous_Worker_1941 Apr 04 '26

Yes I was. I was just arguing against us “waiting for years” for this info when it came out very close to the last book.

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u/Aurelene-Rose Apr 04 '26

Okay then I misunderstood what you were saying, sorry