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    1. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 9 Jun 2020

      I realized this because reading the Wizard Books was a bonding activity with both my parents - something which was rare to find with my mother, who contrary to present day situation I was very distant from in childhood. But she reads paperback mysteries like drinking water.

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    2. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 9 Jun 2020

      Now, Wizard Book Lady is not GOOD necessarily at mysteries. She's not INHERENTLY bad at them - she's better at writing them than I am, and I've tried. I don't read a lot of whodunnit fiction and the assembling of clues and stuff isn't trivial.

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    3. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 9 Jun 2020

      Now, WBL has been extremely bad at mysteries on at least one visible occassion - Goblet of Fire was so nonsensical that she ruined her setting even further trying to fix it. But the first three books in particular use the whodunnit formula well, which is why my mom liked them.

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    4. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 9 Jun 2020

      Writing as Badass Special Forces Man, Wizard Book Lady has also written her own non-magical whodunnits. I haven't read these myself, because by the time they came out I was well aware that WBL was not a great architect of prose and that better writers existed.

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    5. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 9 Jun 2020

      My attachment was to the setting, which also - and I'll get to this in a little bit - is not so good even on a pure coherence criterion. But I'm informed that the Special Forces Badass pseuodoym mysteries really highlight WBL's bigotries, *via* being targeted at adults.

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    6. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 9 Jun 2020

      This gets me to the other reason I think the books initially grabbed readers across age spectrums despite there being more-than-superficially similar fantasy out there. Wizard Book Lady is good at putting stuff in there that makes you go "that is fkced up," and keep reading

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    7. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 9 Jun 2020

      This can be stuff that's mainly just shocking to children, such as "the professor has an undead guy on the back of his head!" to the casually horrifying like the revelation that in living memory Hogwarts chained students to the ceiling for detention.

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    8. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 9 Jun 2020

      Or, in the case of the Special Forces Dude Pseudonym mysteries, the casual brutalization of a trans woman. It's this morbid, amoral curiosity that makes you also think you're reading something just a bit beyond the bounds of acceptability, which works on both children and adults

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    9. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 9 Jun 2020

      This ultimately pays off in the stuff a lot of people have talked about where Wizard Book Lady seems like she "totally called" the rise of fascism or whatever, and depicts it very vividly in the later books. It's a really emotional gut punch.

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    10. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 9 Jun 2020

      Of course she already had people hooked by that point, but I think her ability to project omnipresent messed-up-ness beneath all the goofiness was always there, and drew people in. The books always felt to me like they had an inherent tension a lot of other fantasy lacked.

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 9 Jun 2020
      Replying to @BootlegGirl

      So here's a take: The Magicians is often called a "deconstruction" or even a straight up "parody/satire" of Harry Potter, because its world is so dark and nihilistic and fucked up on a foundational level ...But really, that's just taking Harry Potter seriously

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 9 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl

          A logical and moral ending to Harry Potter *should* be our heroes realizing that this whole world they live in is monstrous and indefensible It should end with everything falling to pieces on them But it didn't, because she chickened out

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 9 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl

          The core appealing thing about the setting -- the Secrecy Statute, the veil they hide behind from Muggles -- is an atrocity Wiping Muggles' memories without their consent is an atrocity Withholding healing magic that could save millions of lives right now is an atrocity

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        1. John‏ @johnlk_80 9 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @x_t_pd @BootlegGirl

          That's kind of what a deconstruction is, though.

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