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spywitch · 3 years ago

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I loved all my elementary school teachers but like the one disappointing thing about all of them is how they loved harry potter and would do literary analysis on it a lot but didn’t realize at all how terribly written it is. Like yes Mrs. M it is at least more complex and better written than Twilight but thats a low low bar.

And the thing is I don’t think a children’s book has to be super well written and have detailed world building or political themes to be a good children’s book. The problem is HP TRIES to and is so awful at it.

#like I dont understand how theres a whole generation of like millennials + some gen x ppl who deeply worship HP but never realized how #terrible and nonsensical a lot of it is. not to mention ‘mean-spirited’ lol #and some of it is just terribly liberal concepts but a lot is leaning more on the side of conservative and bigoted. as with jkr herself #like theres just a wizard prison where they torture ppl with soul sucking monsters??? but mostly the only criticism is ‘oh poor falsely #sentenced sirius black’ and not ‘AY YO why are we torturing ‘criminals’?’#the themes of abuse in general throughout the story and how it is apologized or weirdly handled #from Harry and the Dursleys. Snape. voldemort��s backstory. dumbledore and his family #just fucking Weird. ableist. antisemitic. racist. misogynistic shit all over the place #and I feel like a lot of American audiences have a hard time recognizing some of it because a lot of it is so distinctly british #the Flavor of the politics and bigotry in it is slightly different and can be more subtle to us

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