Does reading/watchign fantasy give children unrealistic expectations of life?

[CaptainWacky]

Let's say they read a book where the hero is JUST LIKE THEM living a normal boring life and then SOMETHING HAPPENS and they find out they have a special destiny and go off to strange foreign lands killing orcses and having sex with fish and come home a hero or develop some amazing power or whatever, right, and this poor child who can't face the harsh realities of life thinks "that could be me!" and they start to REALL think that some day they'll be told they're special so they refuse to live a normal life but nevertheless normal life sneaks up upon them at unawares and HITS THEM right in the face and they totally breakdown and their body turns to jelly and their mind to...jam and they try to kill themself BUT CAN'T EVEN GET THAT RIGHT and end up in an institution and the only way they can express themself is by spamming a lawless message board with childish crap. WHAT IF THAT HAPPENED?

 

[Tisiphone]

I missed a book with fish sex???

 

[CaptainWacky]

Harry Potter.

 

[Tisiphone]

Harry Potter and the Mystery Roe.

 

[Fuddlemiff]

HagridFishfucker: "Oh dear.. I shouldn't 'ave done that!"

The children approach Hagrid, frowning and holding their noses.

HermioneHotpants: "Hagrid, why'd goo(she's holding her nose remember!) sbell of cod?"


ANSWER: YES

 

[Cassie]

WHAT IF THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN? THAT'S THE REAL SCARY QUESTION!

 

[CaptainWacky]

we're raising a generation of dreams, we should fucking bring back the draft so that half of them are dead in Iraq before they're 21, that would teach them

 

[Cassie]

YER HARSHIN' MY MELLOW NOODLES MAN