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Writer, music lover, long-distance cyclist and doing-his-best dad. Happiest at altitude.

Blackheath, London, UK
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    Rob McIvor‏ @rob_mcivor 19 Sep 2020

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    Flea attempts to bite dog - and fails. There are lots of reasons to criticise the Harry Potter books but if you can't understand why they are so popular you probably don't have much of a writing career ahead of you.https://twitter.com/Nymphomachy/status/1306912738036326402 …

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    I despise the "JK Rowling was rejected by twelve publishers before publishing Harry Potter" factoid because it's characterized as some kind of triumphant upending of the clueless literary establishment and not multiple professionals recognizing it was completely derivative work
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      2. Ms D  🌈‏ @msdwrites 19 Sep 2020
        Replying to @rob_mcivor

        I don’t think ‘there are reasons these works are so popular’ is any sort of argument against ‘these books are extremely derivative’. If anything, publishing returns suggest the two often go together. And they really are derivative: I read The Worst Witch after HP & was shocked

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      3. The Nerd Errant‏ @ErrantNerd 19 Sep 2020
        Replying to @msdwrites @rob_mcivor

        Besides, nothing in Harry Potter will be as magnificent as this!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FMf8ltkCgM …

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      1. Aaron and Wesley‏ @BrownTownClownT 19 Sep 2020
        Replying to @rob_mcivor

        I don't think anyone struggles with the thought of why HP was popular. Its pretty self evident But its author showing her TERF colours after the fact is the complicating issue which is seperate from the polularity of a childrens book about wizards and magic

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      2. R.F. Switch Has Closed Her Heart to the World‏ @RFSwitchArt 19 Sep 2020
        Replying to @rob_mcivor

        I know why it was popular, because the one publisher that did publish HP gave her one hell of a marketing campaign that appealed to so many parents and children.... ...Not all of them, of course. My 12 year old ass was reading The Time Machine by that point.

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      3. R.F. Switch Has Closed Her Heart to the World‏ @RFSwitchArt 19 Sep 2020
        Replying to @RFSwitchArt @rob_mcivor

        Seriously, someone good marketing is how a lot of garbage books get really popular. Twilight and 50 Shade of Grey are prime examples of this.

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      2. Oddball‏ @EDegrechie 19 Sep 2020
        Replying to @rob_mcivor

        They popular because they're marketed towards little children

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      3. Rob McIvor‏ @rob_mcivor 20 Sep 2020
        Replying to @EDegrechie

        Yep, that's an underhand tactic for a publisher of books for children to use.

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      1. Truxillogical‏ @Truxillogical 20 Sep 2020
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        So...you’re bad at reading then?

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      1. Disco Gnome‏ @MrCrystalMighty 20 Sep 2020
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        They're popular because of marketing. And because people like things that are familiar.

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      1. Lauren Pleska  🏳️‍🌈‏ @RadFemme74 20 Sep 2020
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        They came along at the right time and happened to be something that worked. I mean they're not well written, the world building is crap, there are enough offensive stereotypes invoked to offend everyone except thin white gentile men etc etc etc.

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