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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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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Like it makes things like student after student getting Petrified by the Basilisk but not actually killed in Chamber of Secrets suddenly not feel like a necessary genre trope but as an absurdly contrived coincidence Because we changed genres
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There's an interview, one of the earliest I remember seeing personally, from a British documentary about the series where she mentions she got a letter from an upset parent asking her to never do that again, and she's openly defensive and disdainful of this letter writer.
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Which, fair enough, it's a rude thing to do, but I've often wondered, because her contempt for the suggestion was so clear on the screen, and because her general approach to criticism seems to be the double down, if this was an influence.
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