c.s. lewis obviously had the right idea with the narnia series. that’s how you get em young. surprising how few people have really seriouslu tried to follow in his footsteps
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meanwhile the power vacuum in teaching the dharma to children of my generation was filled by… j.k. rowling. and we know how that turned out
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millennials criticizing the harry potter universe for liking cops too much or w/e is its own whole genre by now but it really is very frustrating that harry potter looms so large in the millennial psyche despite being ultimately so morally and spiritually shallow
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rowling was just some woman before she accidentally became a kind of mother to an entire generation. it was a burden she did not sign up for, was not vetted for, and ultimately was unprepared to bear
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at least the popularity of the harry potter series taught us that many, many kids wished school was more meaningful, more filled with adventure, more suffused with magic; wished that they were being taught how to actually do cool stuff by teachers they could respect
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there’s just so little to learn from harry’s arc tho. he starts out surviving voldemort because of his mother’s love (did the other mothers who lost children to voldemort love their children any less?) and ends up beating voldemort on a technicality involving the elder wand
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what is there to admire or emulate here? i’ve never heard a single person say out loud that they want to be like harry potter. there’s nothing to be like. harry wins because he’s Special, not because of any exceptional qualities he’s managed to cultivate
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Big disagree. The entire moral of HP is that love for others is paramount.
* Harry was saved because his mother loved him
* Snape was redeemed because he loved Harry's mother so much that he risked his life for her son
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* Harry survived his own sacrifice because he saved Draco whose mother loved him
* Voldemort was doomed because he didn't love anyone and could not conceive of ppl (Snape, Draco's mother) loving others so much they would betray him
* ~~big power of friendship energy throughout~~
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maybe something like "love others so much you would risk your life for them" which is a pretty cool theme imo
doesn't quite explain the absolute MVP that Neville ended up as tho so I agree it's not 100% consistent
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it’s been awhile since i’ve read any of the books but i just don’t think it really comes together. you have to go through this really obnoxiously long chain of reasoning to connect harry’s win to him sparing draco or w/e. what we actually see is the nonsense with the elder wand
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fair tbh. and your overall point of Rowling being unfit for the role she got is very true
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