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People giving you shit for not liking Harry Potter. Like. Ive always loved Harry Potter but I still hate everything about it so
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I didn’t really even like Harry Potter to be honest, but since my earliest memories it’s been in the back of my mind. Mom read me the Sorcerer’s Stone as a bedtime story, I waited in line with my sister when a new book came out, I can remember with perfect clarity the first time I watched the first movie, I’ve read every book and seen every movie and I know my hogwarts house. The second I hear Hedwig’s Theme it makes me feel some kind of way while Leaving Hogwarts leaves me feeling sad and hollow from the tune alone, like I wasn’t obsessed with it but it’s just something I’ve accepted to be in my life, like a tradition.
Fair
It’s just wild ppl defending it like it’s their child like they really gettin that upset… yikes
Every listicle about which Star Wars characters go in which Hogwarts houses is bullshit. They always make Leia a Ravenclaw or a Gryffindor. Leia is a Slytherin. She was raised a princess but even that wasn’t enough for her, she was like “I’m gonna overthrow the government, bitches.”
And Han Solo is not a bad-ass Slytherin, he is a Hufflepuff, because every five minutes he is dropping his own agenda to help his friends not die doing whatever crazy shit they’re about to do.
The biggest Gryffindor in the whole trilogy is R2D2, because every beep of his can basically be translated as “Hold my beer and watch this,” usually followed by him getting zapped by something and falling over.
Remember when Ursula K. Le Guin called JK Rowling a nasty basic bitch back in like, 2004? We should have listened
“This last is the situation, as I see it, between my A Wizard of Earthsea and J.K.Rowling’s Harry Potter. I didn’t originate the idea of a school for wizards — if anybody did it was T.H.White, though he did it in single throwaway line and didn’t develop it. I was the first to do that. Years later, Rowling took the idea and developed it along other lines. She didn’t plagiarize. She didn’t copy anything. Her book, in fact, could hardly be more different from mine, in style, spirit, everything. The only thing that rankles me is her apparent reluctance to admit that she ever learned anything from other writers. When ignorant critics praised her wonderful originality in inventing the idea of a wizards’ school, and some of them even seemed to believe that she had invented fantasy, she let them do so. This, I think, was ungenerous, and in the long run unwise.“
i found the specific quote i was thinking of x
Q: Nicholas Lezard has written ‘Rowling can type, but Le Guin can write.’ What do you make of this comment in the light of the phenomenal success of the Potter books? I’d like to hear your opinion of JK Rowling’s writing style
UKL: I have no great opinion of it. When so many adult critics were carrying on about the “incredible originality” of the first Harry Potter book, I read it to find out what the fuss was about, and remained somewhat puzzled; it seemed a lively kid’s fantasy crossed with a “school novel”, good fare for its age group, but stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited.
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i got to the yule ball level of the gba harry potter and the goblet of fire game
no one is saying it but we all know ron is killin it
i’m crying i’m watching a streamer play sonic w mods and it’s the fucking harry potter obama sonic
his name is “spermy~” bc i only watch mature streamers for adults
The racist stereotypes littered throughout the Harry Potter franchise including the grotesquely anti-semitic goblin’s foreshadowed JK. Rowling’s later bigotry on twitter
