Like it's a "goofy kids' book" that gets surprisingly deep with the Mirror of Erised scene, with Quirrell/Voldemort's lines like "There is only power and those too weak to seek it", the Snape fakeout, all that good stuff
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The issue was HP trying to fully become that dark epic fantasy adventure when it transitioned to the later books, and revealed JKR's limits as a writer and the limits of the setup she created without knowing where it was gonna go
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That's what I mean about Harry Potter "feeling like fanfic of itself", that by the time you get to Deathly Hallows it has this rickety feeling of someone trying to do an actual dark YA dystopia about Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory and the social implications of Oompa-Loompas etc
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All the best kids' fic has darkness and depth, even those aimed at pre-tween. Peter Pan is more melancholy and undercurrents, but the Borribles books are straight-up cutting af.
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The first three books largely work, some uncomfortable warts (goblins, house elves, etc.) aside. The fourth starts to show signs of problems. Fifth and onwards are without value.
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It’s been a while since I’ve read HP, but I remember 5-7 being hard for me to get through. HP 5-7 feels like it’s trying too hard to be dark & YA without fully committing to being dark & YA and it personally pulls me out of the story and always has.
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