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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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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I think Rick Riordan managed it pretty well. He's definitely got a feeling of being the anti-JK
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I don't remember Percy Jackson changing tone that much.
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