Why do they bring up the fact that Harry is filthy fucking rich in the Philosophers Stone and then never mention it...

The way I see it, it was mostly a way to justify anything she was going to write afterwards that involved Harry's finances. Just as an example, you can say he used that money to buy most of the shit he needed for school, so he didn't need to ask his friends to lend him stuff all the time.

splits ur soul m8

I feel it's the opposite, she's good a building up comfy settings and situations where magic would be fantastic but is awful at writing characters. I can't think of any time Harry shows human a desire to do anything besides stop the bad guy, except maybe when he talks to Chow Ching for like five minutes.

>burgers are so indoctrinated that they can't be exposed to the word "philosopher"

because she was extremely poor when she wrote it so she was very preoccupied with money. after the first couple books she was set for life and it became unimportant to her

Yea 90% of it takes place in the same fucking building

>is it just me or does JK rowling suck at worldbuilding
It's just a haphazard backdrop for a teenage wishfulfillment story that uses clichéed element of British culture. Like elite boarding schools with oldfashioned uniforms. Also, functional organisations that should be in charge of upholding the law, security or criminal investigations are practically nonexistant so that a bunch of schoolkids can end up saving the day as well as prevent Hitler from taking over.

Weasley immunity is OP

>tfw remembering the dozens of edgy fanfics about Harry suddenly remembering that he's rich as fuck and buying everything in site
>tfw remembering that I actually enjoyed reading those

This is probably it. I think something similar happened with the quidditch stuff, originally she wrote what she thought was the dumbest sport possible to mock her bf at the time who loved soccer/football. Then maybe they broke up or something because she really eased up on it.

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Everything was fine in the first few books, because her style ultimately worked in the context of a children's book. When the books started becoming more mature, what was passable before became a glaring flaw.

She sucks at building a believable world, however she's actually somewhat decent at making a fairly "comfy" slice of life mystery story.
However when you start adding all these dramatic elements and more "adult" oriented content the world starts to just crumble since you kinda have to start taking it seriously for the story to have any impact.

She had nowhere to go after the third book, Harry killed Voldemort, then killed his ghost, then had to deal with his follower, and then she just asspulls Voldemort back so she can have a villain to deal with again.

All those edgy fanfics would have been more accurate to life than what Rowling's books actually told. If some bullied kid suddenly got a bunch of wealth and was treated as the next coming of Jesus, he'd probably act like a complete degenerate

who cares rowling is a terrible author. /thread

>/threading your own post
faggots never change I guess

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plot convinience
if the main character has to travel or has to live somewhere for some time the writer doesnt have to worry about ''how will get the money to do it''

doing God's work user, never stop

>tfw Harry Potter was never written by a decent writer
It has so damn much potential.

yes that's the title of the book

And that's the thing. Pulling that stunt in a series of children's books is fine and dany, more or less. Hell, The Wizard of Oz series has 14 books, and they start to get repetitive around the third one. The issue is that Book 4-7 basically turned into YA fiction, and teens/ young adults have a slightly lower tolerance for bullshit writing compared to children.

>and teens/ young adults have a slightly lower tolerance for bullshit writing compared to children
They should have, but the success of HP clearly shows us that they don't.

World building wise, one of the thing that really bothers me is the fact the spell supposed to disarm enemy is four syllable long, I mean why would anyone use that during a duel or any situation when your life is in danger ?

>Where did all the fucking money go?
Abortions

Because JK Rowling is the ultimate shitlib. She believes that rich people should just be treated like everyone else and that they act like everyone else. They shouldn't, and they don't.

Hording it like the neoliberal cunt he is

What this guy said. In fact, I think she tries to plainly spell it out that it's not an absurd amount of wealth, but that it's exactly enough that he could afford all his basic needs for the foreseeable future (all 7 books as she planned them). It's just a plot device so we don't have to see Harry work a summer job to pay for his books or whatever, considering he has no wizard money whatsoever being raised by the Dursleys. Also, so Rowling could sell the rights to a Gringots Bank ride to Universal when the timing was right. Truly a genius.

>boarding school full of horny teenage boys and girls
>not a single mention of anybody getting pregnant

>Where did all the fucking money go?
TV license fee

What if Harry and Hagrid got sucked into the Goblin door?

Jesus Christ, what sort of unfathomable horrors lurk behind that infernal contraption?

>foeticus aborticus!

Why didn't Harry Potter just pay Voldemort 100 galleons to fuck off?

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>never mention it again
maybe in the movies they don't, in the books they definitely mention it.

Where were all the hogwarts sex orgies

>boarding school full of horny teenage boys and girls
>not a single rape

What I wanna know is why it's unforgivable when it's rather humane but in book referenced spells such as the "blood boiling hex" and "entrail expelling curse" aren't banned.
Also to add to what this guy said, Dumbledore easily handled the Killing Curse by putting physical objects (including his pet) in harm's way, if you only use the Killing Curse you'd be predictable, being imaginative with magic keeps your enemy on your toes I imagine

>radcliffe too

>Introduced as unblockable curse
>Lol actually you can just summon a fucking bird in front of you to tank the hit

BRILLIANT WORLD BUILDING ROWLING

>tfw you will never be a perverted sex offender in a magic boarding school
Why even live?

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They meant unblockable in the context of magic to be fair, there's a basic shield charm, as well as actually blocking spells by catching them on the tip of your wand and sweeping them away as Snape tries to teach in book 6. One thing that really pissed me off is Harry never bothered to learn much magic after book 5 and expected to be able to beat Voldemort somehow with a 15 year old's knowledge of magic

Hellooo Riicky

>fetus deletus

Maybe if you read the books...

Jek

It's all part of how Harry Potter is a fucking terrible protagonist. 90% of his succes is

>Something his parents left him on a silver platter
>Something another adult gives him
>Something Hermione figures out

There's like 4 things in the entire series Harry accomplishes himself, and about 3 of them are Quidditch related.

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Yeah, like that one time in Half Blood Prince where Harry and Ron skived Defence class, flew to Gringotts and withdrew enough gold to buy thirty whole gallons of highly distilled alchemical incendiary elixir.

Privet Drive was never quite the same after that excursion.

Bankers keep money in vaults where it magically multiplies.
That was utterly retarded.

All he needed was foetus gonus

(((Bankers)))

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>blocking spells by catching them on the tip of your wand and sweeping them away as Snape tries to teach in book 6.
imagine someone throws a naked women spell at you and you catch the bitch with the tip of your "want" and sweep her away. imagine snape teach that to little kids. that's really problematic.

>not fetus deletus
user you had one job

Just another example of how Rowling is a fucking hack.

Imagine if Harry just called Snape a pathetic cuck who never got any of his mother's puss and still cries about it daily in that class day in day out.

>Snape leaves his worst memory for Harry to see
>it's just a flashback of James Potter telling him to "have sex"

Have you ever met a person with inherited wealth of more than 2 generations?

Unless they have a famous last name like Vanderbildt or Kennedy, most people in that position are low key about it and are indoctrinated from a young age that they have to save, save, save and not reveal themselves to anyone. There are a lot of random people you might have met who you wouldn't even realize are loaded because they spend so little money and intentionally don't get involved in high visibility industries like business, media, or politics.

Harry Potter probably put his money in the wizarding world's version of a non taxable offshore account and held the rest in a high yield account at Gringott's.

>remembering all those filthy HP fanfics on xnxx stories site.
Good faps tbqhf

What is the point of money when you literally have magic?

the worldbuilding in HP is retarded
>no reason for the "masquerade" to be kept up since wizards are so much more powerful than muggles
>magic has no coherent system or rules so you wonder why the most powerful wizards can have any problems
>feels very small scale, everything revolves around one school, little clue at what most wizards do in their adult life or around the world

Britain has been a nation ruled by Jews since Cromwell let them back in

harry potter sucks but not for these gay tvtropes reasons you listed

Met plenty of such people. Bunch of idiots. Most millionaires where I live have never worked in their lives. Lazy, stupid fags only rich because of their grandparents or older relatives.

>seventh book
>harry finally leaves the school
>oh shit, this is exciting
>he goes back to the school halfway through the book anyway

This, it was fucking awful.

What would wizards even need gold for??

He's a minor

Trading. Material components are the main thing that wizards cant just make. The weasleys are so fucking poor despite his fathers job because of that damn parchment they have to buy for the whole year of each kid!

>better question - is it just me or does JK rowling suck at worldbuilding
She came up with it on the fly. Martin at least had a framework for what he wanted, while Tolkien told the story after building the world

why were your grandparents and older relatives such failures?

>and about 3 of them are Quidditch related.
On brooms he got as anonymous gifts despite being filthy rich himself

>Harry Potter thread
>Almost 80 posts
>Ctrl + f "dullest franchise"
>Not found
Yea Forums sucks now.

Why are the magical defenses that protect the sorcerer's stone something any good wizard can defeat? This isn't the case where some wizard has hidden and only wants someone worthy to be able to claim it. Dumbledore is protecting it for his friend because he thinks Voldemort is after it. Like, Snape's riddle with the potions. Why have it at all solvable? Have 100 potions, 1 being the correct one, 99 being poisons, and just only tell Dumbledore which the correct one is.

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Thats a really good point.

This. Conjured or transfigured items don't last

Muggles would literally genocide wizards if they knew about their existence.

daily reminder that wizards don't understand plumbing because they make their shit disappear with a spell

HPMOR explains this. It makes the series tolerable.

Dumbledore plans to make serious, powerful defenses but worries about Voldemort possessing one of his students and forcing them through the death trap. So he makes easy defences (so simple that a child could get through) so Voldemort sees it as a trap, which it is.

Think about it, only the conceptual trap with the mirror is actually a working defense method.

The first book was basically pandering to childrens' wish fulfillment fantasies.

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