I strongly suspect that most people who enjoyed HPMOR had parents who strongly encouraged them to learn as much as possible.
As anecdotal evidence: I was never strongly encouraged to learn (the best I can say is that I wasn’t hindered) and I enjoy HPMOR tremendously.
Also the base-rate of “encouraged to learn” amongst a mostly-educated audience, such as the readers of HPMOR would be quite high and one might see a similar rate in other fiction that attracts a similar, educated, audience.
Glad to hear it. I was worried that most of the LW/HPMOR community might have spent most of their childhood reading books to prove themselves, because most others couldn’t handle Harry’s narcissism. I agree that most educated people were “encouraged to learn” but probably did not have a narcissistic parent, because I’m assuming a low base rate for narcissism and no correlation between narcissism and learning, but I don’t have evidence to support this.
As anecdotal evidence: I was never strongly encouraged to learn (the best I can say is that I wasn’t hindered) and I enjoy HPMOR tremendously.
Also the base-rate of “encouraged to learn” amongst a mostly-educated audience, such as the readers of HPMOR would be quite high and one might see a similar rate in other fiction that attracts a similar, educated, audience.
Glad to hear it. I was worried that most of the LW/HPMOR community might have spent most of their childhood reading books to prove themselves, because most others couldn’t handle Harry’s narcissism. I agree that most educated people were “encouraged to learn” but probably did not have a narcissistic parent, because I’m assuming a low base rate for narcissism and no correlation between narcissism and learning, but I don’t have evidence to support this.