i cried on my 12th birthday because i didnt get my Hogwarts letter and i wasnt a witch. Then i cried again on my 13th because there was now i knew for sure the owls didnt get lost giving me my letter and i really wasnt a witch
A childhood belief about witches

others believed things like this
- I waited for the mail to come on my 11th birthday so that I could get my letter to Hogwarts... It never came.— Charlie
- i used to believe i would get my letter to hogwarts when i turned 11— katie Phillips
- the summer that I turned 11 I waited out side on the step all summer for my hogwarts letter... ;D — Ginny weasley... not really
- I cried on my 15th birthday because i was too old to be taken to neverland.Anon
- When I was a young boy I thought when we cried or when we laughed we won or we lost one minute of our life. — loulou83
- i really thought that "key" was a secret letter to the alphabet that only i knew.— amber