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[–] [email protected] 226 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (12 children)

In all seriousness, this is what happens when you write novels without doing any world-building and just put down whatever seems "fun". The are sooooo many things in that series that make no sense once they are superceded by later plot devices. Rowling didn't think any of it through ahead of time and gave almost no thought to internal consistency with previous content when she wrote new things.

It's honestly a terrible series in most regards and it's kind of disappointing how popular it became.

Also she a trans-hating bigot. Fuck J.K. Rowling. Can't forget that part whenever discussing her or her work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

This is what I tend to say to people about Harry Potter as a series. It was the first series like it to become popular, and that's its only merit. Overall it's very tame and bland, but it got lucky and became popular. I didn't like it because it was too same-y. After book 3 or so, I don't care about Harry Potter anymore. Explore someone else that's more ordinary. It makes a much better setting for derivative works, which to me as someone who writes textbooks of lore for RPGs is more important than just making a series sell well.

[–] [email protected] 101 points 1 week ago (19 children)

Rule of cool supersedes making sense. Yeah there’s a ton of nonsense, but you called it yourself, it’s fun. That’s all that matters.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

Yeah, I enjoyed the movies I saw as a kid, but it's so painfully mediocre watching it now. And that is before factoring in the garbage human who wrote the books.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 week ago (7 children)

The issue I have with this line of reasoning is that there are equally whimsical, better written series that just didn't have good fortune to pop off the way HP did.

It's marketing. And cover art. And simple timing of fads. It sucks. And it funded a horrible person through pure happenstance

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Im pretty sure its because they were trying to keep him on campus to keep him safe and used that as a bs excuse and he didn't realize it until later cause he's a kid. Idgaf about Harry Potter, haven't picked up a book in 20 years, but I remember this.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, as there was a killer on the loose, suspected to be super crazy and in the area. In which case, would it be safe for the other kids?

It's not logical whichever way you look at it.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

It's because they thought Black was going for retribution on Harry so they probably figured that he was largely laser focused on him. Though he did blow up a bunch of folks in their eyes so that logic doesnt really hold water.

TLDR: Rowling dumb and doesn't even think things through within the same book.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He liked a pro trans meme once.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You'd think a woman who can literally transform into an animal would be pro-trans

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago

She would have been if she wasn't written by a massive piece of shit.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago

His legal guardians do not consent to him even attending the school in the first place, to the extent where he needs to be broken out to attend every year. But no field trip.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

looks like the magic world's lawyers were just as bad as their muggle counterparts, tbh.

way worse, in fact, when one reads about all the wizengamot proceedings.

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