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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020

      Arthur Chu Retweeted OwenAdamsYT

      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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      OwenAdamsYT @OwenAdamsYT
      Replying to @arthur_affect
      Feels weird defending JKR right now, but I feel like a lot of criticisms of the series come from the misguided placing of HP in the YA genre, and not recognising its context as British Children's literature that gradually formed a newer YA genre as the characters grew.
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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020

      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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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020

      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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    4. OwenAdamsYT‏ @OwenAdamsYT 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      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.

      2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
    5. Isabel Cooper‏ @ICooperAuthor 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @OwenAdamsYT @arthur_affect

      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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    6. OwenAdamsYT‏ @OwenAdamsYT 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @ICooperAuthor @arthur_affect

      The "Hogwarts is so dangerous" memes bug because like... that's the joke. It's such a bizarre criticism.

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @OwenAdamsYT @ICooperAuthor

      Well I think it's because there's that jarring genre shift we get when Cedric actually dies You can accept that there's goofy children's-book meta-magic at play that makes sure no matter how mortal the peril is no one gets killed, if it's consistent

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @ICooperAuthor

          But as soon as you deliberately *break* that rule all of a sudden the confidence that the rule wouldn't be broken we had before feels like a betrayal of trust, it makes everything before look much darker

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @ICooperAuthor

          There's a TON of comedy works I can think of that intentionally milk this for dark humor The Community episode with the Law and Order parody "Starburns got rear-ended. The meth lab in his trunk exploded. ...Starburns is dead." *grim, bleak silence, fade to credits*

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