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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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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There's a definite turning point, Azkaban rides the balance relatively well, I think, but after that she starts writing for her most invested fans and it essentially doubles down on continuity, arc, and theme.
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Yeah. And that's the point where a lot of people started (IMO) overanalyzing some of the stuff at the beginning. Like, the child-unfriendliness of Hogwarts isn't particularly worrisome in books 1-3, because there's a more unrealistic/cartoonish feel anyhow.
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I've learned this lesson, both as someone who has done a very limited amount of writing and as a reader: trying to switch from goofy to serious is very difficult to make work.
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There is a reason I say the third book is the strongest. After that it tried to get serious, and the origin simply is not that serious.
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