When I told my sister I’d be writing about Harry Potter, her eyes lit up. And then when I confessed I was writing about my distaste of it, she called me a walking disaster and the disappointment of the family.
Sibling things.
Harry Potter is an overrated series. The books aren’t thrilling at all. I’ve barely been able to watch the movies without getting at least a little bored in the mystically. Nothing makes sense. At Hogwarts, kids don’t get formal education past age eleven(meaning anything like proper English classes and Math and history and so on). The only things they’ve been taught is about the magic world. Latin in spells and history of magic. Unused things in the real world. It’s all irrelevant!
The lore of Harry Potter is weak. The magic and real worlds don’t blend enough to be even slightly believable that the two coexist.
The characters are made up of stereotypes and unrealistic movie tropes. They’re views don’t develop at all as the series ages, as well as the characters themselves. Their attitudes don’t change. Their inspirations and motivations remain dull and unrealistic.
Harry Potter, as a character, is the pained and abused child who grows into the know-all be-all main protagonist we know and tolerate. Everything he does is always right. He has no flaws. The chosen one gets everything they need handed to them on a silver platter.
I’m going to talk very, very briefly about the representation of the Harry Potter series. Years after the last main storyline book had been released, the author comes in claiming there was LGBT representation all along. I know it isn't necessary for a work of fiction to contagion proper representation, but to come back years later and say, on a whim, that there was representation when none was shown? It isn’t believable. It doesn’t give the characters and more substance. It doesn’t help empower the gays. I don’t feel empowered because J.K. Rowling said Dumbledore was gay.
I understand that Harry Potter has stood as the backbone of fiction for years and has impacted so many people’s lives.
I’m just not fond of it.
I, on a broad scale, agree completely with this. As someone who have tons of friends and peers who've read all the Harry Potter books and have watched every Harry Potter movie, I have to confess the fact that I've never seen nor read any version of Harry Potter. It's not even the fact that I'm not a fan of the genre, because I am, it's just something about it gives me a cringey vibe. That comes from someone who's watched every Star Wars movie multiple times and reads tons of fantasy world and magic books. Something has always kept me away from Mr. Potter, and I'm not even sure what it is. -Robert
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