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Let's reevaluate the original Harry Potter books, compare them to other fantasy novels that came before and after, and see if the works really are as good as we remember them to be.
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Chapters:
0:00 Was Harry Potter Ever Good?
1:33 My Personal History with Harry Potter
4:14 Harry Potter Mania in the 90s and 2000s
10:38 What Happened to Books After Harry Potter?
15:30 Racism, Fatphobia, and Homophobia in Harry Potter
20:07 Why Slytherin Makes No Sense
25:27 The Status Quo of Harry Potter Never Changes
26:26 Magic and Worldbuilding in Harry Potter Makes No Sense
28:24 Harry Potter vs Earthsea
33:14 There Are No Consequences in Harry Potter
37:45 Harry Potter is British Imperialism
41:58 There Has to Be Something Good About Harry Potter, Right?
45:27 The End of Harry Potter
47:42 The Misery of Modern Harry Potter Fandom (Hogwarts Legacy)
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I think Rowling is a much much simpler woman than she believes herself to be, and the flaws in her approach as a storyteller become more and more clear the higher age demographic she tries to write for.
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As an Argentinian, I remembered I was so confused when I found out that the southamerican school of magic was on Brazil, one of the few countries in Latinamerica where spanish is not the official language. Like, what are the spanish speaking people suppose to do??😂 learn portuguese just to go to school?? That's madness. That was the moment where i realized she didn't know a thing about the world outside England.
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Animorphs should have been the popular youth series. Don't let the silly morphing covers fool you. Inside the pages of Animorphs you will find an epic war tragedy. The child heroes go through bloody combat, ptsd, psychotic breakdowns, moral failings, and meaningful sacrifices. There are consequences, character growth, and upsets to the status quo. Animorphs!
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Pro writer here. The fact that kids can project themselves into the book is massive, but also Rowling’s real talent is the ability to write characters (especially bad guys) in such a way that it illicits a strong emotional reaction in the reader.
I went to a boarding school and there was one teacher at this school that absolutely everyone was terrified of, even including kids like me who weren’t in his class—and for good reason.
Dude was a total asshole who reprimanded me once for not saying “please” to someone else in such a traumatic way that I still have the memory of it to this day.
When I read Harry Potter, Snape wasn’t Alan Rickman, Snape was that teacher.
Fear of Snape and hatred for Umbrage and love for Hagrid and Dumbledore are something the reader feels on an emotional level with such intensity that it actually drives immersion with the series.
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There's absolutely no way that Hogwarts would teach that Salazar Slytherin was a bad guy in real life. They'd try to gloss over his fascism, and when they do teach him, they'd call him a "polarizing" figure.
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Even when I was a kid I though it was so dumb that Rowling got away with not explaining how magic works or the history of the magical world by just going “Harry was bored by it so he wasn’t listening”.
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I've been aware of this for years now, but the real contribution I got from Harry Potter is all from fanfiction, from reading stories where people see the problems of the original books and come up with better ways to do things, to deal with problems, to ask questions, to change.
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I joke (as a former Hp kid) that Harry Potter was only big because Anime wasnt a thing in the West yet. But this video made me realize it was kinda our first real Otaku Culture with Fanfics and everything lol.
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Harry Potter somehow managed to capture lighting in a bottle and released at the right time.
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As a Ukrainian I have to say that putting all post-Soviet countries together in one school is wrong for so many reasons. That school is permanently on fire.
And, well, that's very much russian colonialism there;-;
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And don't forget, she put The Latín América Magic school in The only country that don't speak spanish (Brasil). That show You that she don't Even try.
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Makes you wonder if Harry Potter would be as popular if it came out today.
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I read these books right after immigrating to a different country as a disabled kid. I dropped them after the 2nd? book because, even if i couldnt express it at the time, i understood that, if i had anyone to identify with in those pages, it was the non magic humans, the ones who are made fun of, used, abused and powerless to do anything about it.
JKR may like to say this is a world for everyone, but it didn't take me long to realise that she never believed it.
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As a Brazilian guy, Castelobruxo completely baffles me. It's an Aztec-like pyramid hidden in the middle of the Amazon rainforest (where likely no Aztec ever stepped) as if anyone could properly get there, and the school houses Brazilian and other Latin American wizards. Now, what language are the classes in? Most students would speak Spanish. However, the school's name is in Portuguese and it's in Brazil, which would suggest Portuguese. Also caiporas, keep in mind that Caipora is a protector of nature, now protects this man-made building for some reason. All that in what I suppose is one of the lesser offenders.
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There's a distressing lack of Terry Pratchett in this video, despite him being pretty much point for point the Nega-Rowling.
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Aside from Earthsea being decades prior to HP and doing the concept of scholastic magic far, far better, there are other far more on-the-nose examples that it looks like Rowling copied. The Worst Witch is a fairly obvious one, but the example that pissed me off the most was Groosham Grange, primarily because Horowitz said he wouldn't continue the story, first published in the 80s, for fear of being perceived as ripping off Rowling.
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Neville Longbottom grows, he goes from being an insecure, timid, bullied young boy whom few take seriously to leading the students during the seventh book at Hogwarts, to standing up to Voldemort and the Death Eaters, killing Nagini and being a lot more confident, positive person.
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It is WILD that Rowling is now claiming that a key part of the whole "wizard Nazi" we thought was that main real-world-relevant parallels of the books was TOTALLY ACCIDENTAL! I'm not sure if I believe it, but at the same time, I totally can believe it. Because when I first read the books I assumed one of the reasons Hermione worked so hard is because she's Muggle-born and knows she's going to have to be twice as good to be respected...because that's what every real-world minority kid/child of immigrants/woman in a male field knows! But then I realized - no, she's an over-achiever just because, and Rowling doesn't seem to know there are stages of oppression in between rude names and genocide...
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One of the biggest problems from a pure world building standpoint? The magic is boring. There's never an explanation of how it works or what makes somebody a powerful wizard. Magic is just a convenience in her world. After moving on to other fantasy books this only became more apparent
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@agramuglia
1 week ago
So to address a few reoccurring responses: A lot of characters who are Black in the films are not distinctly Black in the text until significantly after their film appearances (if ever). Yes, The Worst Witch should have been mentioned. I misinterpreted the Rick Riordan article so I thought he was criticizing Palestine, not supporting it. I should have mentioned Nina's magical powers are basically emotional manipulation and later necromancy The only good Earthsea adaptation is the BBC Radio broadcast. There are a number of YA fantasy series published prior to Harry Potter, but I think Harry Potter's success helped elevate them to a more mainstream status. A rising tide lifts all ships. I'll update this as I notice more responses. Just wanted to clarify that now.
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