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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Jun 2020

      Arthur Chu Retweeted Ben Rowe

      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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      Ben Rowe @CineastBenRowe
      Replying to @mightygodking
      I've been saying this for YEARS. Harry Potter's worldbuilding is bad because the first books were written clearly assuming that no one was ever going to be reading them questioning the details. They fit in with other 90s "chapter books", generally on a Roald Dahl level.
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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Jun 2020

      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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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Jun 2020

      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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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Jun 2020

      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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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Jun 2020

      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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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Jun 2020

      AND THEY WERE ALL BETTER AT IT

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Jun 2020

      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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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Jun 2020

      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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        1. Toggle‏ @Taagol 6 Jun 2020
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          I still enjoy the first 6 books (the HP world in one's imagination can still be great even if the canon isn't), but I found the 7th absolutely baffling. I could not understand at the time how it came from the same author. It was everything bad fanfic does, in a published novel.

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