Before i read the Harry Potter books, i think someone told me Griffindor was a place! I imagened a city, at night.
Also in 1st grade we named our "groups" (groups of desks) once, a group called themselves (Dumbledors" i thiught "why wuld anyone want to be called "double doors"?"
When i read it i found out the truth.
A childhood belief about reading

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that electricity was manufactured in a factory in a place called 'Electriz City'.— Sally
- When I first started learning to read I was convinced that vowels were called barnacles.— Andy Howell
- i used to believe Harry Potter was real— charlotte
- My cousin used to think that a group of nine singers was called a "niner".Anon
- I used to think there was a place called Caucasia and everyone from there was Caucasian.— Lucy
- I believed that the breed of dog called Boxer was called that because they could stand up and box.Anon