So as far as where I think Harry Potter went wrong as a series - because I think it really did somewhere?
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
I think it was somewhere in book 6, with maybe precursor issues in 5z
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and its problems are pretty much entirely entangled with metaplot and setting rather than characters
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It's clear to me that from Rowling's POV, this was a story where the protagonist was a lens to view a battle between specific other chars
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Dumbledore, Snape, and Voldemort are the most important people from the moment Sirius dies onward
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And it's them we still talk about. The kids were just sort of lenses. That's not in itself a flaw
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But Voldemort's agenda was, overall, fairly nonsensical; what Dumbledore and Snape do to stop it makes sense, but the scheme itself fails.
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@BootlegGirl his minions are far more compelling than he is1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes -
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He's like Kylo Ren except without the sex appeal or the Vader connection or any of the character relationships or good acting
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@BootlegGirl he's clearly not even a good leader
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