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Who else hates Harry Potter? Please say someone does. I can't go through life thinking that I'm the only one that thinks the poor characterization, unnecessary filler text and boring, predictable plot lines. I'll say more, but I want to make sure that nobody will be super offended.
submitted by S.E.
(October 15, 2015 - 9:12 pm)
(October 15, 2015 - 9:12 pm)
Harry Potter is also a blend of mythologies, just more subtle.
And Percy Jackson is so different than Harry Potter! I hate when everyone thinks it's the same thing
(October 23, 2015 - 7:40 pm)
I read the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. It was okay and I started book two.
I COULD NOT READ PAST THE FIRST COUPLE OF CHAPTERS.
Same with Inheritance Cycle, just for the record.
(October 24, 2015 - 11:16 am)
Btw I think the overall magic school thing was kind of cliched, it's the deep characters and beautiful language I love.
(October 23, 2015 - 7:44 pm)
I know I just LOOOOOOOOOOOVE Harry Potter, so you might be thinking:
"Why are you hanging out HERE? This is a hate-harry-potter post."
Because it's really interesting for me to see other's opinions on HP, and see other's views!!! my dad says that you should always see both sides to a situation before jugding, or doing something. (Typo!)
(October 23, 2015 - 11:39 am)
Yes my name is Cho Chang so WHAT. Harry Potter is okay. I only like two of the characters, Cho Chang (obviously), and Hermione Granger.I have given up on him after book four.
(October 19, 2015 - 8:33 am)
I can sort of see why, I mean, there really is no theme to the whole story, has anyone realized that? Anyone who likes to spend eons analyzing books would not like it (like my dad.) However, the world is really cool, and makes me want to be a witch. A few questions I have:
1. How did the first person come up with the idea of a wand?
2. How did the first wizard come about? Did they evolve from magical animals?
3. Who started the Trace? Is it natural?
4. Why is 17 the coming of age and the removal of the trace? 21-22 is usually when brains are fully mature (or as mature as they ever could be.)
5. How do people pass magic to one another? Is it in their genes?
6. If a cat animigus has her offspring while in cat form, will they be a litter of kittens?
(October 19, 2015 - 8:59 am)
1 - Nobody came up with the idea of the wand. The wand choose the wizard.
2 - The first wizard came about just the first muggle came about, only magical. OOOH or maybe all cave men were magical but then some of them lost their magic
3 - I read the series a while ago and I am just rereading them (im rereading book 2 right now), so I don't remember what the Trace is
4 - Because the wizarding world likes to be weird
5 - It seems to be more likely with 2 witches/wizards, although I guess it can come randomly or skip generations, like in muggle-borns or Squibs
6 - Depends if they had their offspring with a cat or with a human... since they were originally human, it sounds rather creepy to have offspring with a cat, but I honestly don't know. Although I'm pretty sure you'd want to be human if you were having human offspring and would change back.
(February 21, 2016 - 11:55 am)
It feels like J.K. Rowling wanted Harry to be human, so sha tried to make him human which didn't work. I don't feel like she knew her characters.
Predictable plot lines:
Ginny and Harry romance
Quirell is evil
Ron and Hermione romance
Horcruxes: after the fifth book I had pretty much figuered out something like thatt would happen
Dumbledore dies'
Voldemort dies
All other plotlines/ events
Maybe I'm just over perceptive.
(October 20, 2015 - 5:24 am)
*Spoilers ahead*
Agreed, Dumbledore's death was predictable, but that's probably because many mentors "have" to die right before the final battle - or they have to seem dead - so that the main chracter knows that there is nowhere to run - they have to face this problem themself. And after hunting Voldemort for seven books, it's pretty much impossible for Rowling to let the readers off with "he's not dead."
Also, did anyone else figure out who R.A.B. was before reading the sixth book? I stayed awake at night, staring up at he ceiling, going through last names with "B," since I knew Rowling was the kind of author who has to have introduced the mysterious chracter beforehand. (Such as in the first book, when the trio searched for the maker of the Elixir of Life.) It took me about fifteen minutes total.
(October 20, 2015 - 8:23 pm)
Couldn't this be said about other books?
Also, Narnia. Yes, it isn't predicable whatsoever. However, how do the heck do you know what's happening? Also, the ending. Poorly written. Well, not exactly poorly written... Just a bad plot. If there is any plot.
Every single book follows harry logic.
Main Character is strange in some way.
Villian and Main Character have long backstory for hatred.
Good guys are actually bad guys.
Bad guys are actually good guys.
Main Character falls in love with friend's sibling OR Main Character falls in love with someone who they think hate each other.
Main Characters senpai/wizard/master dies.
Villian dies(Hm. I wonder why.)
Now, I can't argue with you, because you think Narnia is amazing, and Harry Potter is horrible, while I hate Narnia and I think Harry Potter is the best thing that happened to me (Besides the Paper Magician.)
(October 21, 2015 - 10:33 pm)
Well OF COURSE the villian is defeated. Is there ONE BOOK series for kids that ends with the bad guys winning?????
(October 21, 2015 - 11:02 pm)
@Abigail: Let's just think about Lemony Snicket for a minute. XD
Okay, the bad guy didn't win, but he also didn't lose.
Anyway!
Yet again, there's a point to make. S.E, SD, you didn't finish. How can you object to anything if you don't know the ending?
And some of your arguments are really, really weak. Spoilers.
A. Dumbledore dies. Of course he dies. JK would be an idiot if she didn't kill him! You have to kill him! He's like the all-knowing guy, you can't let him survive! Besides, if you'd actually read the Deathly Hallows, you'd see the problems that followed. Rita Skeeter's book! And then they all expect it to be untrue, when it is. Guys! Dumbledore has one of the best character outlines in the books!
B. Look, Harry Potter is a classic. Ask anyone who knows what it is. It's one of the most famous books in the world. How could it not be a classic?
End spoilers.
And, about Narnia.
It isn't a well-written series. The books by themselves are pretty good, yes, I'm not saying I don't like them. The problem is that the endings are too final. For a series to be a series, they really have to connect like Narnia doesn't. C.S. Lewis tied up all the loose ends instead of leaving some untied. If you ask me, that makes the books more choppy and less smooth. And having some books have different MCs didn't seem like a good idea to me, either. You really need books that can slide into one another like puzzle pieces, not books that are like completed puzzles that are fairly similar.
(October 22, 2015 - 12:46 pm)
Oh yeah.
Argh, I HATED the Series of Unfortunate Events! It was the same plot in every book over and over and over and over: Sunny, Klaus, and Violet get sent to a new home. If the foster parent is good, he or she dies, and if he or she is bad, then they usually win.
I liked, I guess, Narnia, but eh.
(October 23, 2015 - 6:50 pm)
I found it addicting and very good. But I usually don't pay attention to "this plot is repeated" or "these characters are very static" unless it's really, really obvious....
(October 23, 2015 - 8:59 pm)
SoUE? I used to love that series...
Key word USED to.
A while back, I realized what I absolutely HATED about the books.
LEMONY. SNICKET'S. WRITING.
RANT START
"A word which here means [insert weird defenition here]". "If only I had been there for Beatrice."
Blah. Blah. Blah.
Sure, it's interesting that the author has a story to tell about himself. Sure, the defenitions he gives are funny. But it's SO. DISTRACTING. If he had just put them a couple of times, or made a coherent subplot, it would be fine. But NOOOOO. He HAS to put them EVERY chapter FIVE MILLION TIMES. AND IT STILL DOESN'T SERVE ANY COHERENT PURPOSE.
RANT END
(October 24, 2015 - 11:42 am)