We’ve all been there. We’ve all met somebody who calls themselves a "Harry Potter" fan, but doesn’t know the difference between a Nimbus 2000 and a Nimbus 2001. And that’s fine! It really is. No shade intended against casual "Harry Potter" fans. It’s just that, when the more diehard of –– Potterheads, as we’re known –– encounter anybody who shows any interest in "Harry Potter," we expect nothing less than the universal understandings and struggles that all Potterheads share. So, if you don’t turn out to get those things quite like we do, we will probably be at least a little disappointed. It’s not personal; it’s just "Harry Potter." Here are just a few of the daily struggles that us Potterheads endure:

1. Horcrux quizzes that pretty much only have Stag, Doe and Dog as possible results.

Three major characters have these patronuses. That means they’re the only ones that matter or apply to anyone, right?

2. Seeing articles about a “shocking Harry Potter theory that’ll blow your mind.”

I know all the theories. It will neither shock me nor blow my mind. I’ve considered it and extrapolated on it more than you can even imagine. Nice try.

3. When somebody brings up your favorite character (who is, in all likelihood, dead) in casual conversation.

I don’t want to talk about it. I’ll never be ready to talk about it. I’m not crying.

4. Rereading the books and one of your favorite characters dies.

If I skip over that chapter it’s like it never happened, right?

5. “They’re just children’s books. How upsetting could they be?”

I dare anyone who hasn’t read the books and feels this way to give it try. If you make it through without crying I’ll give you a dollar.

6. “I didn’t want to read the books, so I just watched the movies.”

You fool.

7. Overhearing a Harry Potter conversation and trying to mind your own business until you hear someone say something like, “Slytherins are evil.”

I didn’t want to get involved, but here comes the storm. I might as well have a degree in Hogwarts house theory and you, my friend, are wrong.

8. Watching the movies with non-Potterheads who don’t even pay attention then running back your fellow Potterhead friends and telling them all about it.

There’s only one way to watch these movies, folks.

• Point out all the book-to-movie flaws,
• Wish you attended Hogwarts,
• Cry.

9. When you start ranting about the stuff they left out of the movies (ahem, ahem, Regulus) and you can hear people getting bored of the conversation, but you just can’t stop.

Please, sir, understand. He should’ve been in the movies. His story needed to be told. Sir. Sir, please. Let me tell you story about a boy named Regulus Arcturus Black.

10. Speaking of things the movies got wrong.

“Calmly.”

You know what? I won’t even let myself get started with this one. We all know.

11. Trying to be civil after someone insults your favorite character.

Yeah, we’re cool! Don’t worry about it! Me? Hold a grudge because you insulted only my favorite person ever? Never! That would just be silly.

12. Taking a bad house quiz with answers that obviously point to certain houses and trying to stop yourself from skewing the results to your favorite house — then doing it anyway.

I found a $20 bill on the ground, you say? Obviously, I’d do the honorable thing and return it, not keep it. I'd never keep it. Who would do that? Not me. Not a Hufflepuff –– like myself.

13. And when you take the house quiz completely honestly and the results don’t fit you at all.

This is why I have to forge my results, people. These quizzes can’t tell me who I am. Harry chose his house, why can’t I?

14. When you were a kid and you tried to test out your magical abilities.

I mean, I only did this as a kid. Not anymore. That would be ridiculous. I’m a mature adult and I know better and, no, I haven’t recently tried to remove the glass from a zoo exhibit with my mind. Please.

15. And finally, when the books were finished, all the movies were released, and we thought the best story that ever happened to us was over.

But then "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" and "Cursed Child" were announced.