A Harry Potter Theory

[BDC]

My ears started bleeding after reading the last book. It was that bad.

After reading some George Martin stuff it was like going from (using education as an example here) something you'd get top marks at degree for to something a 14 year old would do for middling marks. It was dire. A whole book waiting for something to happen. Then the super-bad-evil-dangerous people are beaten off by some children. Ooooooh terrifying!

[Fragony]

Then the super-bad-evil-dangerous people are beaten off by some children. Ooooooh terrifying!

It gets to me every time as well, it always keeps you second guessing huh

[The Stranger]

i think 4 was the best...and my THEORY is about book 6...im 90% sure that im right, cuz i expec this after she let sirius die and after i red who the halfblood prince was

and his name is (RAB)

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Regulus (A) Black

[English assassin]

Come on, three formulaic but ok in a mediocre sort of way childrens books, and then three "hooray I am now so rich I have escaped all editorial control" literary equivalents of constipation.

I mean, one of them is about CIVIL SERVANTS fer chrissake. How bleedin' magical is that? "Harry Potter and the Sarcastic Memorandum".

I especially hate Harry Potter because for the six months before the last one was published ("Harry Potter and the Invisible Plot" I think it was) I couldn't buy a newspaper in WH Smiths without the checkout staff asking if I wanted to pre-order Harry Potter. EVERY DAY.

[Mouzafphaerre]

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Didn't read any of them, didn't watch any of them... Won't. It's a subject of marketing, not literature or anything.
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[Fragony]

Come on, three formulaic but ok in a mediocre sort of way childrens books, and then three "hooray I am now so rich I have escaped all editorial control" literary equivalents of constipation.

The 4th book was awesome! He falls in love for crying out loud! You can't say she isn't taking risks, our hero Harry is actually growing up, and Hermonia is developing titties in the last movie. You may not like it, but millions of kids all over the world love it, and I am really just a big kid so bring them on. I love the leightweight humour, the parralel universe thing with all the common problems like bureaucracy and growing up is obviously directed at adults, it is loaded with innuendo and irony. For the kids of today Rowling is what Roald Dahl was for me, creepy, witty and deliciously sadistic fun, he was also formulaic but who cares!

Go Harry!!!

Didn't read any of them, didn't watch any of them... Won't. It's a subject of marketing, not literature or anything.

Your loss, no it is not literature, but it is fun! You are really missing out here, go read one. Now. It will bring a smile on your face, thrust me.

[Gregoshi]

I resisted Harry Potter through the first three books just because it was the "in" thing and Harry was everywhere you looked. Besides, it was a kids book, right? I started changing my thinking when I realized how many of my friends aged 20s-50s had read Harry and love the books, so I decided to give Harry a shot. Fragony described HP best as pure and simple "fun".

Prodigal, the next book is the last. The last chapter of the last book has been written for quite a while now, so there is an end. BTW, I'm a 46 year old Tolkien-is-#1 type person.

[Rodion Romanovich]

I read books 1-4 in a row as English practise, and realised they were way better than I had expected. But because no.5 wasn't out in a long time I kinda stopped following the series. Is book 5 and 6 any good, or has 6 come out yet? I'm kinda clueless about the series atm... I'll probably not read the last books until the series has been completed, I find it extremely annoying to have to wait a long time for the ending of a story when I've started it.

@Fragony: well, they're like apples and oranges and not exactly easy to compare. I personally like both for what they are. Harry Potter is an alternate universe comprehensible for those who live today, Tolkien's middle earth is according to himself an attempt to create a faked religious-mythological early Medieval world that he thought the British lacked. Harry Potter has little message in it and is in no way art but has a very nice and cosy atmosphere, while Tolkien's trilogy is a masterful artwork with deep messages, and above all a dark, epic atmosphere which I've not seen matched by any other artist in any field of art.

[Mouzafphaerre]

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Your loss, no it is not literature, but it is fun! You are really missing out here, go read one. Now. It will bring a smile on your face, thrust me.

I may. Just because you recommend.
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[miho]

Regulus (A) Black

How did you get the idea of Regulus (A) Black? Who is he anyway? I've read all 6 books but I don't remember him.

[Beirut]

It will bring a smile on your face, thrust me.

Thrust me?

You knave. You saucy, saucy knave!

[Drisos]

Saturday I got HP5... and finished reading sunday. monday I started HP3, and finished a few mins ago. Now I'm onto 4...

I like LOTR as well, but not as much.

[Fragony]

Thrust me?

You knave. You saucy, saucy knave!

ooooooooooops

That is not nice at all Beirut, to give our Sapihi false hope.

[Geoffrey S]

Come on, three formulaic but ok in a mediocre sort of way childrens books, and then three "hooray I am now so rich I have escaped all editorial control" literary equivalents of constipation.

Sums it up nicely. Wasting so many pages on such nonsense is by no means good writing; the first few books were acceptable, but the later ones are entirely too long for their own good, without actually having any content.

Try some Philip Pullman books, I'd say.

[doc_bean]

I read the first 5 boks, the first three were okay, very reminiscent of what Horowitz had done before and better in Grieselstate. The fourth was too long and didn't really have much plot. I read the fifth in one night, after my last exam , I don't think I remember anything about it

[edyzmedieval]

Interesting theory.

I read all 6 books, and I am waiting for the last one. I just read them for fun. As for serious literature, I turn to Tom Clancy or Agatha Christie or Clive Cussler.

1. Clive Cussler
2. Tom Clancy
3. Agatha Christie

HP is just for fun. And HP will die in the 7th novel.