That’s an interesting take, given that freeing the house elves is one of the arcs around a main character, who is explicitly presented as struggling to end slavery, & she is clearly shown as being more morally aware than her preer group.
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Online fandom, in particular, is OBVIOUSLY why Harry Potter got so goddamn big Not that HP is somehow objectively leaps and bounds better than every other popular children's book series in history It's the one that was popular when the Internet started getting big
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It's why the "long tail" of Potter fandom interest was so ridiculously long It's a powerful way to lock in people's interest in a property and keep them from being pulled away to other things - when you're literally part of a community with relationships built on it
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I can back this up. I literally only got into Doctor Who thanks to an amazing fan fic.
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I just read an awesome Transformers fic and...yeah.
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I feel like there does end up being a substantial cultural difference from fandom to fandom on this sort of thing? Like, Twilight and Left Behind productive fandoms are both hatedoms you’d have to be unfamiliar with to not realize
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Insofar as fandom is a promotional device, it’s a promotional device that works on people who’d have that kind of context, not people with little enough familiarity with fanwork culture to think it’s always complimentary
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