"People who have a hard time making friends or are shy, the internet can really help because it's easier to find people that have your same interests," Troseth said. Nostalgic fandoms have also flourished online, extending the life of the central subject. " like looking through your closet and seeing your old T-shirts."
"Anybody who came through it and was of a certain age is not likely to forget it, and not likely to put it aside, so you're going to go back and look again at what those things brought you and it becomes fun," Randall said. NBCLX storyteller Cody Broadway explores why hard times in the present make us look to the past. We're Disney adults, lust after Lisa Frank and have been dragged by Gen Z for defining ourselves as Hufflepuffs, Gryffindors, Ravenclaws and Slytherins.ĭo you ever find yourself wishing you could go back to a simpler time? When we're feeling down, we tend to become more nostalgic. The generation that grew up as the books were released from 1998 to 2007 is also known for clinging to childhood relics. The Potter fantasy world made more sense than the one that people were living in at the time."
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And the late-2001 release of the first movie means the national consciousness already associates Harry Potter with another world-changing event, Randall said. Revisiting old stories and happy parts of our past can be especially powerful when we're going through trauma, like a persistent pandemic. "Otherwise, it just seems artificial and trivial." Healing through nostalgia "The books that endure tend to have real psychology underlying dragons and the space aliens," Troseth said. Rowling had a good instinct for a lot of information about child development that she incorporated into her novels."
I kept putting notes in the margins, 'Great example of friendships,' or 'This is really wonderful about attachment,'" she recalled. "When I began to read the books with my youngest son. The way the characters behave is so believable that Georgene Troseth, a professor at Vanderbilt University, uses "Harry Potter" as a framework for an introductory developmental psychology course that she's been teaching for over a decade. "People reading the books when they were young are thinking, 'They're the same as us, except that they have magic,'" Randall said. Reading the books, I was the invisible fourth leg of the beloved tripod, and I needed to know which house I'd be in to invent my little subplots about how I became friends with them. Hearing this was like someone casting "lumos" in my head. Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint.
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