The literary exceptionalism of Harry Potter is a fascist idea
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I'm clearly more of a pillbug anyway, I live under rocks and mostly subsist on detritus
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Trying to bully and berate people into liking something just because you like it is in no way petty authoritarianism. And the Harry Potter books were at best b-grade young adult fantasy. I never understood why they were so popular.
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I read the first two (ok, full disclosure--I don't remember making it all the way through the second) just to be able to know what people were talking about, a friend of mine made me see the first movie, and *yawn*
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He’s not even making an argument. Very often the second-rate knockoff of a thing is more popular than the thing. 50 Shades has apparently sold more than Twilight
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It's really, *really* obvious that the success of Harry Potter was rooted in "defeminizing" THE WORST WITCH by replacing the girl at the center of that narrative with a boy, which took it out of the girl's literature ghetto
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