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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. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020

      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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    5. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      alternatively, the trouble is that she just didn't *commit.* she needed to take the books in an adult direction as both the readers and the characters aged. but that would have meant actually getting in to the *real* dark underside of the story, not the obvious "Voldemort Bad!"

      2 replies 0 retweets 18 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @perdricof

      Unfortunately she was also already committed to having written a setting that established all this stuff like Ton-Tongue Toffees and Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans and Platform 9 3/4 It's not that the transition was impossible but I think it would've taken a defter hand

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof

      Like, dark and gritty HP fanfic that I think succeeds more than the canon books does so because it's willing to *openly* be fanfic, like it has this self-aware tone of making fun of the cutesy children's stuff from before or openly distancing itself from it

      1 reply 0 retweets 12 likes
    8. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      you don't have to distance yourself from any of that. it's all still there. bertie bott's every flavor beans still do have every flavor. but they're fucking jelly beans. at some point the characters need to realize that the beans were distracting them from literal slavery

      1 reply 1 retweet 25 likes
    9. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect

      that all this cotton-candy happiness is gilt on rotten wood

      1 reply 1 retweet 20 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @perdricof

      Yes If she had actually had the courage to do that -- to make the euphoric joy of Book 1 turn retroactively into a vicious lie -- that would've been the correct ending to the series The series would've legit been great literature, revolutionary for its impact on culture

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof

      But alas, she did not That was the book she had the *potential* to write and the person she had the *potential* to become But the depressing JK Rowling story is that she simply fell short, she didn't have the gas in the tank

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        1. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 14 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect

          in the end, just another of life's disappointments

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

          Harry Potter was a paradoxical victim of its success here I think Who knows what would've happened in the alternate reality where HP was only a middlingly successful series But in our world, it was a billion-dollar franchise that had a brand to maintain

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

          It couldn't end on "What if Hogwarts is bad, actually? What if the wizarding world is bad, actually? What if the Every Flavor Beans were a fucking stupid distraction from a rotten society, actually?" Because then you couldn't have a theme park selling the fantasy of those things

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        1. muddlewait‏ @muddlewait 14 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof

          The wisest point of the series IMO, despite all the cracks beginning to show elsewhere, was the book 4 ending showing that the best choice you can make can also wind up being the worst one Then next book she re-orphaned Harry instead of killing Arthur. Just out of her depth

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        1. Nathaniel Downes‏ @downix 14 Jun 2020
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          That is something I will never like: the loss of potential.

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