Are you a fan of Harry Potter? Are you obsessed? Do you just think it's OK, dislike it, or even hate it? What do you think of its author, J. K. Rowling? Do you prefer the books or the movies? How have you arrived at your views on this pop culture phenomenon of a series? Please explain what you think of it. It's gotten to the point where American college professors are quoting from those books and movies. I am assuming, perhaps rather falsely, that it isn't really as popular as it was during the 2000s, but it seems to still be wildly popular. Harry Potter has also preceded, rivaled, and outlasted the other notable fantasy.horror book and movie series phenomenon, Twilight. Which of those two do you honestly prefer?
Are you a fan of Harry Potter? Are you obsessed? Do you just think it's OK, dislike it, or even hate it...
Thomas Sullivan
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Jaxon Watson
that face
Hudson Richardson
It looks like that douchebag that does videos on The Quartering.
Christian Russell
He is this guy. They do look very similar, though.
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Nathan Long
>onions
Jackson Rodriguez
I read books to be entertained, HP books were fairly entertaining. Overall I'd say they're alright.
William Howard
>American college professors quoting from the books and movies
Did your professors do this? Idk this isn't a phenomenon that I've ever heard or encountered, except in the example of English classes examining pop culture
Ryder Richardson
there is nothing very deep about it but it does a good job of showing some key aspects of what it's like to go through adolescence and puberty. a pretty decent conglomeration of tropes, myths and fables to create the details of it's world.
Joshua Robinson
I took some English classes, but in other classes, too, it has made its way to become an occasional reference point. Political science, sociology, and even music classes. It's a given that a cinema professor would have brought it up, most likely.
Cameron Johnson
Even Spanish classes.
Isaac Baker
fiction is for fags
James Barnes
Do you like to read history books, biographies, and political books?
Adrian Wood
Lol where TF did you go to college?
They were mentioned in my English class freshman year, but I was in a class that examined sci-fi and fantasy I'm pop literature so it wasn't out of place
Ian Campbell
I want to take a chainsaw to his legs, put that book in a pillowcase, and beat him to death with it while "SNAPE KILLS DUMBELDORE" plays on a fast repeating loop in the backround.
Samuel Scott
>T. Some loser who thinks that Outliers was actually a good book
Cameron Carter
San Francisco... I know.
Liam King
No nigger
Adrian Howard
My immortal was the superior piece of work
Henry Baker
USF?
Samuel Evans
I love the Harry Potter books and most of the movie adaptations (I tune out very quickly when watching PoA and GoF).
I wish they could have just let it end with DH. I refuse to acknowledge the existence of Cursed Child and JK Rowling's fake SJW fuckery is not a good look. I'm worried she'll release revisions of the story for the soul purpose of altering ethnicity and openly exploring a characters' sexual preferences.
Luke Turner
I'm not a native english speaker and I read the books in english. It was surprisng to see that the language complexity grew with Harry and so did the story telling. It also followed kids logic (which was a bit cheesy for adults), so I think the books to be brilliant. I didn't see the movies.
Same goes with Rowling. She just popped out an instant classic. I have a background in book selling, so I can confirm that Harry Potter alone brought kids back to reading. We still have Potter events here. Rowling has a sharp tongue, too. Very convincing and intelligent personality. Well, you can argue about her political agenda.
Twilight was also a hit but the movies had more impact. The story itself is shit compared to Potter, completely ruined vampire lore and when I think of Twilight fans, I only see underfucked fat bitches.
Oliver Ross
>soul
Fuck me, I'm retarded. I meant "sole".
Juan Cook
freudian slip, eh ?
Ayden Torres
I'll be honest. I am on the opposite of your opinion here, but I prefer Twilight to Harry Potter. Maybe it has to do with how I perceive one group of fans versus the other. Harry Potter fans I tend to cringe at more, although Twilight at its height of popularity between 2009 and 2011 was quite cringe.
Camden Price
Yeah.
Zachary Moore
Twilight was not intended for kids and Potter wasn't for adults.
Is it the story or the story telling that you prefer?
Ayden Lee
Well that's fucking why dude. You went to rich kid adult daycare for four years to temper you a bit before stepping into the real world of working for your dad's company
Henry Nguyen
Damn. I have to deploy in a few minutes. Got to go now. I wish we'd had more time for discussion.
Camden Ramirez
I watched the first two movies of Twilight, and read the first book to some extent, and I think I prefer aspects of both the story and the story telling. Harry Potter has left a bad taste for me, for some reasons. I remember reading parts of one of the books when I was little, and I disliked it not long after having received it as a gift. I never got into the movies, either. I find the culture of a glorification of sorcery to be disturbing, as well, similar enough to the off-shoot phenomenon of some Star Wars fans suddenly declaring that they are Jedis, following the Jedi way, or Siths in the real world. People take those things way too far, too often.
Connor Williams
OK, take care! Maybe I'll make this thread again tomorrow. I might as well, based on how popular the series is, apparently.
Alexander Rogers
Soybean book series.
Josiah Cooper
>I read the WSJ when I was a tween
Dude wot?
Chase Lee
The story was good for a kid that dosnt think about it but i read them again as an adult and there lackluster, the time turner really ruined that series. Cursed child was formulaic daddy dosnt understand me garbage with even more time turner, the new movies with newt are ok action fair with a hot blond kike in it but thats about it. Jk's constant retconing and political bs also makes me like her books less. Eragon enheratince cycle were superior books, but the aouther sold out way to early because he was young and probably didnt get what he was doing which led to a dumpsterfire of a movie, books were great though
Noah Campbell
OK retard
Brayden Watson
the 8th book was trash
Alexander Diaz
I never read the books, but how did it compare with the earlier ones, that makes it trash?
Sebastian Morris
I read up to the 5th book in elementary school I think, we had a point based system and we had to read books that equaled up to a certain amount and they were worth quiet a few.
They were alright I 'spose.
Jonathan Bennett
I never really liked them and I tried to read the books and watched a few movies. Not saying it's a bad story I just didn't like it
Bentley Garcia
The books are great. Except cursed child but no real harry potter fan seems to count that.
The movies leave a lot to be desired. But they arent horrible. Fantastic beasts is amazing. Grindelwalds crimes was kinda meh.
My favorite fanfiction is Harry Potter and the boy who lived by The Santi.
Kayden Phillips
I like Harry Potter.
I hate the cash grabs that have occurred in the last 4 years. Cursed Child was a travesty of a story. It was a mediocre fanfiction at best.
Nicholas Bailey
Have you tried Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality?
That was my first HP fanfic. The humor in it is still some of the best I've ever read.
Gabriel Rogers
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Christopher Perry
I'll always have a soft spot for the books, it was the first series i read as a child (even though i gave up on the fifth, but in my defence i was 9)