Ok do in the wake of the Wizard Book Lady situation, and as a long term fan of the books who fell out of love with them at some point prior to the author's opinions about people like me becoming known and who thus feels moderately dispassionate about it,I have thoughts regardless
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These thoughts are largely directed people who don't understand why people still cling to the books, or moreover why they were ever popular. This isn't a defense of liking problematic things or whatever, Wizard Book Lady got our money years ago, at this point this is visceral.
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Usually the stuff I hear is along the lines of "Wizard Book Lady didn't even bring anything new to the table, look at The Worst Witch or Wizards Hall or Young Wizards!" All of which are more or less correct, BUT
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What I realized fairly early in my fandom of the Wizard Books, as a child and when they were releasing, is that they fundamentally are mostly whodunnit mysteries with a "urban fantasy for kids" wrapping. This is not something they share with those preceding books nor succeeding
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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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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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Replying to @BootlegGirl
This reminds me of a discussion I had with a friend awhile back that Chamber of Secrets is a fairly solid G rated murder mystery where no one dies for realsies
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Of course there's a fairly glaring weakness in her writing now that I am no longer a tiny, credulous child and also not a bigot, but you know.
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The way everyone just coincidentally fails to make direct eye contact with the Basilisk so no one dies for real yet at this point is very silly if you try to think of the series as one coherent world Although you could handwave that it's Ginny resisting Tom from the inside
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