Dad's Cruel April Fool Made Daughter Believe She'd Got Into Hogwarts

It takes a particularly cruel breed of father to make his daughter believe she’d got into Hogwarts.

But that’s what David Risbridger did, and his daughter Ellabell is still deeply upset about the dastardly deception.

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In a series of tweets yesterday – tweets that quickly ‘went viral’ – food writer Ms Risbridger detailed how she ‘cried for days and days’ on finding out that she had in fact not been accepted to the primary school of Hogwarts, aged six.

And to make matters worse, her father still taunts her about the gag to this day.

She has since forgiven the man responsible for the days of heartache, however, insisting that he didn’t think she actually thought Hogwarts was a real place.

Which seems fair enough.

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