Have you ever met someone irl that you just knew was on another level, mentally speaking?
In all my 40 years, I think the closest I came to meeting one was a new kid that joined my class when I as maybe 10.
While most of us were pretty average, this kid was something else. Not only did he smoke the then-smartest kid in the class, the teachers were all over him too.
I distinctly remember that he had read all of Tolken (this was obvs before all the LOTR movies etc) and when we had a 'write a short story' assignment, he wrote some 100 page mini book and the teacher actually printed copies for all the other teachers to read.
Now, to be fair, maybe he just seemed so smart because I was pretty terrible at school and was in the remidal reading group with a kid that just arrived from Nigeria, but I think the teacher's fawning is pretty good proof.
To this day, I wonder what he ended up doing with himself.
Have you stackers met any genius-level wizards in your time?
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