What are your honest thoughts on the Harry Potter series as a whole?

What are your honest thoughts on the Harry Potter series as a whole?

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Could have been interesting, but was let down by poor world building, poorly thought out magical system, the writer being a leftist hack and Harry Potter being the most unsuited protagonist for a story that focus on a wizard kid attending a school teaching you magic.

It's horrible, though the original draco is alright.

I enjoyed it but now with jk writing the cursed child who knows how its going to take a turn downhill

Eww, delete that nigger pic.

Yeah or at least show the full one it was cropped from.

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it was a nice kids/young boys series of movie in the first few episodes.
then they decided to make it emo/dark/3edgy5u and it fucked up. badly.

Both Voldemort and Draco know what it feels like to have been sexually abused by Dumbledore.

Post the rest of that pic.

Totally forgettable, but entertaining enough while you're watching them. I never read the books but I imagine they're the same.

shit flims, flam

Shitty childrens book that I have no idea how it got so popular

Only watched for Emma Watson

No one cares about your taste in munters.

Say that to my face fucker not online and see what happens.

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I liked it overall, the later ones do get edgy like said. I suppose it makes sense because it follows someone from ages 11 to 18, which is when most people start to understand that the world is edgier than they thought.

I really don't like prophecies as plot devices, they kill the tension and make it too easy to focus completely on one character to the detriment of others. I remember people speculating that it was actually Neville Longbottom that was going to kill Voldemort, which would have been nice because it would have shown that the world didn't revolve around Harry.

at least he got to kill a snek :DDDDDDDDDD

That would have made Harry butthurt though.

I do love stories that use prophecies and the like to fuck with audience expectations.

Rowling said as much that she went edgy to match the maturing readers.

Though can someone explain why the first couple books were so successful? It was an okay book but not deserving the craze.

Good timing and clever marketing. Far worse written young adult books have gotten popular than Harry Potter (Twilight, Divergent, Hunger Games, etc) for similar reasons. Harry Potter's meteoric status even among those likely has to do with its contemporaries being so shit it seems good in comparison.

Twilight, Divergent, Hunger Games, etc are young adult, harry potter (first couple books) were advertised as childrens book.

The media shilled the fuck out of it as "the book adults are reading". There is no way it was chance.

yeah I think it was with the second book where it was plastered everywhere.

Why though? How? Does she give the best blowjob ever?

Its was comfy. The first 4 books were fun and had an almost monster of the week feel. And then they got popular and grown adults who barely read were calling it the greatest thing ever. And Rowling decided that after the 4th book that the rest had to be super long, super grimdark and super progressive. I grew out of out by the time the 6th book as released and I marveled at how crazy it got.

I'm 31 years old. I remember the fad, at one point one of my high school classes played one of the movies.

I've never watched a movie, obviously never read a book, and don't give a shit about anything to do with it. I don't feel proudly elitist or out of the loop, I just don't care. I do know, though, that I'll never be missing out on anything of merit.

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I really enjoyed it. I'd say the last movie is only worth watching once just to see how things end, but the rest of them are movies I could watch multiple times.

Sauce

yeah but why harry potter and not one of hundreds other?

I enjoyed the books up until the 5th one (partly because of unnecessary and convoluted teen relationshit faggotry)
Actually, a lot of the 4th one wasn't that great either.

The movies themselves are okay all the way up until the very last two though, primarily because they couldn't cram hundreds of pages of angst and bitching about "hoo snoggin' yoo m8?" into two hour movies and had to cut most of it out.

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Have you read most children's books? Or young adult books? Harry Potter may not have been high literature but it beat most of those by country mile. Add in their easy to read, addictive pulp nature and baby's first worldbuilding and it was a good recipe for casual readers to get something they hadn't experienced before. All you needed then was proper marketing.

Keep in mind the series didn't reach fever pitch popularity until around the 4th book or so.

Looking back on it now. It was all pretty trashy and unmemorable with the exception of the first one.

Only DELTORA quest which is pretty shit.
I guess deltora quest was also praised for being a good book, and if shit like that can get praise harry potter really is a masterpiece among childrens books.

I liked them at the time, but most of them were forgettable and banal.

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Scource on that picture?

see

How dare you

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Don't worry lads, the global report button redirects to a 504 error because why would Porchmonkey want that to actually fucking work

what's wrong with linking to porn?

fite me irl m8

shit was about as bland is it gets m8

I cant believe I spent all that money buying those shitty books

Real question, was Magic Treehouse any good?
I don't remember much of the one book I read

Will I get in trouble with the FBI for looking that up?

yes