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greentrickster · 3 days

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One of the most oddly strange parts of my life is that I actually spent several years playing at being wizards and going to wizard school with my friends in a world that was based on a book I read... but it wasn't Harry Potter. That one hadn't been published yet, leaving my fantasy-loving self to obsess over Wizard's Hall by Jane Yolen. Found it in my teacher's little classroom library in second grade, read it multiple times, found a hardback copy at a bookstore sale, still own that copy. It's bound in plain blue with a darker blue spine, and the words 'Wizard's Hall' stamped on the cover in silver, and on the spine too in all caps, along with 'Yolen', also in all caps. I threw out the dust jacket; it was inferior. The plain blue and simple silver better encapsulate the words inside. It is still the best book I own.

And like... regardless of the everything that's come out about HP's author since, I enjoyed that series while reading it. I enjoyed Hogwarts.

But I attended Wizard's Hall.

#my life #wizard's hall #jane yolen #it's also weird to look back on because this was in the mid/late 90s #so these games consisted of three kids - none of whom were the same age #only one of whom has actually read the book #with access to a trunk of dress-up clothes and a trampoline #I've had a lot of interactions with the HP fandom over the years #but it was a long LONG time before any RPG character I ever used had a name other than 'Ferret'#because that was my special Wizard's Hall name - that was ME #and the only reason I stopped using it was because it became the name of my first ever D&D character who lives on in my heart still #all from a solo novel I read when I was approximately nine years old

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