What if you had a chance to become Harry Potter? And what if you missed this chance? On the eve of the filming of the first film of the famous film franchise about a young wizard, many children auditioned for the main role, but in the final only two remained, and those from who the decision depended on, they hesitated for a long time, not knowing who to choose. They chose Daniel Radcliffe - we know this story very well. But David Fonkinos didn’t write about him – he wrote about someone we don’t know: someone who wasn’t chosen. This is also a story about the Boy Who Lived, but this boy’s life is built around a giant silence called “Harry Potter and My Failure” - a whole life with emptiness instead of a center, and no matter how much you walk in circles, you cannot escape the emptiness. How to overcome a defeat that is not your fault? How to get back the life that was stolen from you? Become invisible, become Harry Potter, become yourself? Here is a story about magic - but it won’t be limited to spells. For the first time in Russian!