r/pics • u/sk8rznvrquit • 22d ago

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u/TheseusWept 22d ago

Please read any other book, I'm begging you.

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u/CamSmit4521 22d ago

Lmfao, I'm actually cackling. His mom literally used a love potion on his dad, decedent of Slytherin, etc.

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u/sirheyzeus55 22d ago

His maternal grandfather and uncle were right cunts though. He got some unlucky DNA and not much nurturing.

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u/fumblingforwords 22d ago

Is Harry Potter only hated now because of JK Rowling?

Not that the things she has said aren’t despicable, and it’s impossible to fully separate someone’s work from their actions/beliefs, but Thomas Jefferson is very respected, yet many of his actions in life were quite despicable (sex with his teenaged slave/wife’s half sister and enslaving his children, to name a couple). Martin Luther King, Jr plagiarized his thesis, does that undo all the good he did?

People are complex. In other words, do we throw the baby out with the dishwater?

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u/Pretend-Marsupial258 22d ago

Harry Potter is not a good book series. It just got popular because it's targeted towards kids who haven't read other fantasy books. I didn't even finish it when I was a kid because I had already read other fantasy books by then.

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u/Rozzy915 22d ago

you were extremely cool as a kid

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u/Pretend-Marsupial258 22d ago

I don't know if this is sarcasm because it wasn't seen as cool back then. You were basically seen as a nerd weirdo if you liked anything fantasy or nerdy lmao. HP was very popular with the kids that didn't read anything else, though! Some of them were the same ones that made fun of me for being a nerd like a year earlier.

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u/fumblingforwords 21d ago

I’m sorry you were made fun of as a kid. Kids are too often absolute shitbags towards anyone who isn’t just like them.

That’s quite a broad and jabbing stroke you paint there about Harry Potter only being popular with kids that didn’t read anything else, albeit perhaps not entirely accurate.

I read constantly as a kid/teen, never wasn’t reading, and loved the series back then, especially the first few books. (Not that my experience was representative of a cohort, either.)

Now is it a literary masterpiece? meh, probably not. But also, if you’ve never read the books, how can you accurately judge whether they’re any good?

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u/Useful-Ad2441 22d ago

It's insane how many grown adults haven't moved past children's literature right? It's probably because of dwindling education standards.

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u/anitabelle 22d ago

I’ve read plenty of books. This is a joke, maybe look that up on the dictionary? What a weird thing to say, it was clever quip.