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How good are the later Harry Potter books really? In terms of prose and worldbuilding. I know that the early books are comfy and whimsical children's books (or supposedly so, I have never read them) but what about the ones that are aimed at the older reader as they grew?

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𓀐 @cyhkb?gJ: They're pretty simple. It's clear she (and her ghost writers) had no plan and was just making up shit for each individual book. There's lots of retcons and plot holes.+

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𓀐 @6upqk~SQ: >3. Grossly overrated I think the movie version boosts the reputation of this one. And the time travel gimmick is well-executed (even if it is retarded from a world-building perspective) I knew what you meant, I think, I'm just a pedant nitpicking the choice of words.+ 1

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𓀐 @a4*dYM7s: I recently reread the book and the movie basically changed all the characters for the worse and lost a lot of the atmosphere in the book. I lost all interest after book five, which is frustrating but quite good. Although I was close to the character ages when I read the last two books, I found the romantic subplots in HBP incredibly annoying and DH too was in desperate need of editing. What do you mean introducing the title artefacts out of nowhere when you already have horcruxes? Absolute bull…+

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𓀐 @vRLN_ufB: Harry Potter lacks important female characters Malfoid fixes that a bit+

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𓀐 @Xqe6bv9k: 1. A lesser Roal Dahl. Serviceable but unremarkable 2. Worst one by far. Boring and meandering even by children book standards 3. Grossly overrated, but lose all the quiddich stuff and it's at least an improvement 4. Starts the page crawl, but picks up the pace. It's alright. Also no quiddich 5. Best one by far. Has actually some insight into teenage angst and it's the only one where the usual mystery gimmick has a satisfying end 6. A step back to be sure, but has great passages about grief tha…+

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𓀐 @qFk8*P5T: Don’t expect much in way of prose. I’m sure the worldbuilding is pretty solid though.+ 2

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𓀐 @9UfN_Eqc: Solid is the one thing HP world building is definitely NOT. Creative, fanciful, funny, and elaborate? Sure. But it's not solid.+

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𓀐 @_*5nWmAV: the worlds building is stupid. her writing is shit. she took standard magic bildingsroman, added "BLIMEY" and "BRILLIANT", grabbed basic shit from everywhere, dusted it lightly with racist tropes, and then went deep into overdrive on the "harry is a good sacrifice boy" a lot of those are no brainers, structurewise, and the cheap ass "DIAGONALLY" jokes worked to get normies into the fantasy door. but shes not good. shes a good rag and bone man.+

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𓀐 @g4+q7bFf: >How good are the later Harry Potter books really? Not good. But there's a solution for that issue.+ 1

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𓀐 @yTTq~6pD: These rewrites will get abandoned when the views dry up won't they?+

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𓀐 @eP9JLT~B: Can someone post an example of where the system crumbles?+ 2

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𓀐 @djH8iqWj: One that pops to mind is how they spend a huge chunk of the last book looking for ways to destroy the mcguffins with the magic sword and the monster poison cited as the only way to do so, only to find out that there is actually a fire spell that does just that easily and a low level malfoy goon is the one to cast it of all people and apparently hermione knew it. Why the fuck didn't you use it earlier with the other items you bitch?+

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𓀐 @8phMfh+H: The explanation for why Harry survived the killing curse is total bullshit. Why had this never happened in Voldemort's history of killing people? Are you really telling me that no one before Lily ever loved or sacrificed themselves for someone before?+

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𓀐 @8XXniJfe: >Romance for women So this vampire GOD millionaire and this other werewolf GOD Gazillionaire are fighting over me and I have lots of sex >Romance for men Grow up all your life with an annoying girl that picks on you but eventually you both begin to slowly see the good parts of each other and fall in love, after countless battles and struggles side by side you get married and have a happy family, the end.+

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𓀐 @*AJ_Pavy: seeing rightoids get one shot by ai genderbent CP and going "I need to read baby books" might genuinely be the most pathetic thing we have got to in the history of online culture+

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𓀐 @vsU-yTNV: Lmao.+

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𓀐 @=AVE-CJo: You're idiots. I'm ethnic chinese and I didn't find Cho Chang racist, it is what it is. There is an actor some of you will have seen before named Chang Chen. Ever watched Kungfu Hustle? The cast includes guys named Chi Chung and Kwok Kwan. Xmen had an actress named Bingbing. Chinese people like alliteration and assonance in names. The only people actually making those objections are westernised American-born chinese who probably don't speak anything other than English themselves.+ 1

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𓀐 @YawzN96q: I was annoyed that they used what is probably only a Korean surname (Cho) as a first name and that nobody in the publishing pipeline caught it Would have been an easy search-and-replace too+

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𓀐 @ZGXs9nrc: >I rarely played VNs and never liked one. > I don't like Harry Potter. >The art is all AI generated. This goes against all my principles >I can't believe Rowling missed the mark to write such cringe fanfic-shit uh huh, sure+

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𓀐 @4gAqX+Co: OK, so the Malfoid trend has lasted for a couple of weeks so far. It slowed down a bit but there are tons of new fanart (non-slop) being made still. Where the FUCK are the rewrites? Any actual ones where it genuinely changes the story instead of nothing almost changing?+

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𓀐 @eG_mtp+U: Lol. I just noticed that the most popular Malfoid "fanfic" is just a poorly "rewrited" (copied) version of the original. Like how is it counted as fanfic? Literally just paragraphs ripped straight from Rowling’s. And the new, fan "additions" don’t even fit the style or the characters at all. 3K likes, 1K comments. It's so bad. We’re doomed.+

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𓀐 @=y*?_5ic: This is the funniest deep dive I've done yet >streams himself writing it to combat AI claims >changes entire chapters and plugs in fresh content >does half chapters or '.5' chapters to show they are completely original slot-ins >wrote in a pair of lesbians to act as a foil for the yule ball, then wrote an entirely different take on the ball itself as well as writing a song for it >AO3 page is bursting with good reviews >he's made all the teachers secretly Vietnam War veterans >doing it purely f…+ 1

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𓀐 @x*dSjd*M: Is it good though?+

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𓀐 @EpsqQjpp: Why do we live in a reality where a man's fantasies can conceive romance that simply isn't possible in the mortal world? Why were we given the ability to dream of things that we can't reach? Why give us so cruelly a glimpse of divine perfection? Isn't this a fault in our blood, something abnormal which wasn't meant to be and ruined us all forever? Was it given to us specifically because we are unworthy, to show us how we inevitably squander what little divinity we're given, and as such given to…+

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𓀐 @-JNYWsJE: Why is this stupid thread still here with hundreds of replies when everything else just dies without notice?+

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𓀐 @eUJ_pN7o: This is now a malfoid thread. Any well written /lit/ fixing a significant part of the continuity?+ 1

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𓀐 @LB7kjh-=: how would you have Malfoid be part of the events? Should she help out more with the trio?+

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𓀐 @fhbykz2u: Seconding this. Which one is best the Guardbro one or NWBro Janeway?+

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