It's bad in the same specific way as when some obsessive fan tries to take something that wasn't that serious or deep and "put weight on a structure not built to hold it" Trying to imagine the cast of Friends dealing with the political aftermath of 9/11
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The people who are fans of Harry Potter still will defend this and say that's what makes it great That it evolves from a wacky children's adventure into dark epic fantasy over time, it "grows with the reader", Cedric Diggory's death suddenly changes what genre we're in, etc
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I get this concept I think this is a meaningful goal for a middle-grade writer to shoot for in a series (Tamora Pierce, multiple times, did a quadrilogy where suddenly the fourth book introduces "adult themes" of sex etc) JKR sucked at it
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You know how I know for absolute certain she sucked at it Because during the long hiatus after Goblet of Fire all of her teen fans tried to do exactly this, often with a strong self-conscious awareness of the silliness of "taking the Harry Potter books through puberty"
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As cringey as the whole Draco in Leather Pants genre of fanfic was at the time, with all ridiculous attempts to consciously make Harry Potter dark and gritty and hormonal and epic, her actual followup books tried to do the SAME THING And they weren't particularly good examples
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It was the most surreal experience reading the big finale, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and thinking of exactly how I'd review it if it were a fanfic ("Clumsy attempt at introducing the author's OC MacGuffin, Snape/Lily flashback was the same one we've seen before")
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the defining feature of fanfic vs profic is lack of outside input or editors to tell a creator to STOP. And she quickly made so much money that no one dared tell her no
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The inflection point where she was no longer accepting editors is Order of the Phoenix and it is *super* obvious. Not only do the size of the books balloon from there (and Goblet of Fire was already pushing it) the quality of the prose and dialogue nosedives into the dirt.
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I remember specifically thinking this about book 7 when it came out.
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I am considered one of the biggest harry potter fans in my friends and family. I never read the 7th book. Arthur is right, it is because after book 5 i had read BETTER fanfic and going back was so hard. So i went full fandom theories and stories and art then.
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