I will legit defend JKR's original manuscript that made her famous That the reason Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone went viral is that it feels like a goofy silly kid's adventure but has surprisingly dark undertones and the ending is surprisingly deephttps://twitter.com/OwenAdamsYT/status/1272294783147560960 …
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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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But once she tried to do serious world building, it became clear that the internal logic of the wizarding world is nonsense!
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