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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One of those telltale features of a writer who doesn't read much and is more influenced by film and TV than books (She imagines this monologue being delivered by an actor who's actually breathing hard or choked up and can't think of any other way to give us this effect in text)
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It's like her addiction to the use of eye-dialect, which becomes absolutely infuriating after a while (Ach, lad, y'can gi' th'impresh'n m'language ain' exac'ly th'Queen's English wi'ou' fillin' th'ole damn page w'apostraphes, cant'cha? I'tak's an'ole hour t'rea')
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