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Dude I'm saying! Harry Potter was never good, it was just popular
And yeah I read them and watched them, at least the first few. I'm not talking out of my ass. It's a series with a few imaginative ideas sprinkled throughout otherwise super typical schlock with casually racist seasoning.
Fuck Harry Potter
Yep, I never understood the appeal besides making kids feel special. It seemed like a water down fantasy which when I criticized people just said read the books.
Ironically I did read the first one before the movies became a big hit. It was an okay children’s book at best.
For some reason we have these unwritten social rules that say you can’t critique certain pop culture icons once they hit critical mass.
Harry Potter is sort of the Classic Lays potato chip of the children's book world. Dependable, reliable, not the most exciting in the world but any stretch, but easily snackable all the same.
They're easy to read, not super deep, and because of that, probably got a lot of kids into reading who otherwise wouldn't have, and there's something to be said for that. It's unfortunate that the author turned out to be a bigot the whole time.
I unfortunately had to watch all the movies because I had a child of the appropriate age range that wanted to watch them. Every last one was boring as all hell. Some of them were even in the theater so I added a little to them being popular. But they were not good.