Yeah a big part of JK Rowling going off the rails was how the Fantastic Beasts movies are her trying to be taken seriously doing gritty adult material -- making the Harry Potter universe deal with sex, politics, the Holocaust, etc. -- and people generally not buying ithttps://twitter.com/ErrantNerd/status/1313010045789982720 …
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It doesn't mean not taking *the work* or the *quality* of the writing seriously, but it means, to me, a certain level of humility in the relationship with the reader It's hard to put into words but the thing I mean is something I know early JKR had and current JKR sorely lacks
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But like, when I supposedly went off on an "obsessive" rant about the origin of "Alohomora" etc. -- Some people might think caring a lot about not misusing a word from another culture is "taking yourself too seriously" What I meant by what I said is the opposite
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