People like to say that when you criticize a published work as "feeling like bad fanfic" it's meaningless ("Just say it's bad! Fanfic and profic are the same!") but they are wrong Harry Potter absolutely reads like fanfiction of itself It's a wildly overextended goofy ideahttps://twitter.com/CineastBenRowe/status/1269410264518033408 …
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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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Taking an absurd concept too far is probably my favorite genre of fiction, but to do it well requires a good bit of world building. JKR is a "world just does whatever it needs to to fit the story" kinda writer. (I have a similar complaint against King) (IMO of course)
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