Harry Potter and the Mid Life Crisis

This is an amusing take on what Harry Potter and his gang might be like 30 years on.

Which makes me wonder about my own childhood fiction heroes and heroines:

What would Nancy Drew turn out like later in life? As a precocious sixteen year old, she was an ace sleuth - perhaps as an adult, she’d be that nosy neighbour always “investigating” what’s going on behind other people’s closed doors.

Or the Famous Five? Well, that’s easy. Julian would be a braces wearing investment banker in the City; Anne would be a suburban mum driving the kids in an SUV to and from school in between yoga classes and caring for incontinent, blind old Timmy; Dick would be hanging out in the gay bars in Soho while George would be a forest ranger with her own chainsaw and a lovely femme in tow…