/lit/ - Literature

I can meme to infinity about stretching legs and gay black characters but I still feel love for the hp saga.

>>12833373
Favourite book?

>>12833364
>hours on the toilet reading and forgetting to wipe

>>12833391
Probably the goblet of fire

>>12833426
Nice, I remember seeing that for the first time and being excited by how big it was. Rowling has such a great awareness when writing, and every sentence is either humorous, insightful, or has some relevance which is revealed later on in the book which causes your brain to feel pleasure when recalling the initial mention of that thing and realizing how clever Rowling is for planning that so far ahead and allowing you the satisfaction of feeling like you've shared an in-joke with her and that she has allowed you to truly test your brain and invest in this universe she's created which isn't just some abstract, strange place which you can't really imaging yourself residing in, but a complex, organized, realistic environment superior to the kind of mundane reality you're otherwise acquainted with. One scene from Goblet of Fire which is among the most memorable for me is the one where Harry goes for a bath with a giant egg or something, and Moaning Myrtle comes to mess around and tease him. After the bath Harry has to sneak back to Gryffindor tower, and I remember exactly how I imagined him in that scene, sneaking up a stone stairwell while Argus was nearby with his cat Ms Norris. I rooted for him 100% and he made it back safe and sound.

>>12833364
>>imagining how comfy it would be to spend a night in Gryffindor tower with Hermione and Ron while it snowed outside

>>12833364
>reading by hallway light
>you're too invested in the tri-wizard tournament to sleep

fuck

>>12833468
Can you imagine it? Being introduced to Gryffindor tower was so amazing. Self-inserting as Harry and being led into the boys' dormitory, with the four-poster beds and the leaded windows overlooking the giant lake, mountains, forests etc. Having Ron in the next bed over and waking up only a short walk down some ancient stone steps from the common room with its comfy sofas, portraits, log fire, etc. So amazing! Lying there safe and warm in bed with the wind howling, heavy rain clattering against the window panes, thinking about Sirius and the great adventures still to undergo and the mysteries to unravel with the help of your loyal friends. Brushing your teeth in the morning with your bed hair, dressed in standard issue pyjamas barefoot on the stone floor, getting dressed and walking into the common room to find Hermione talking with some girl and looking over to you and finding herself suddenly blushing and becoming silent until her friend turns around and notices you, turns back to Hermione giggling and nudges her while Hermione looks at her with wide eyes and tries to make her stop drawing attention. Walking down to Potions with Hermione and feeling your sides gently bump against one another and sense that you both get a thrill out of that. Going to the library with Ron and a couple of other mates to revise and having them leave early due to boredom but find Hermione there on her own revising and have her finally look up and see you and smile in a really innocent, disarming way and smile back and keep looking up at her but looking away whenever she notices and starts looking up, just enjoying the silence in there with the librarian nearby sniffing occasionally, then packing up to leave and having Hermione pack up too and making it seem like she was leaving anyway, walking down to supper and sitting with your respective groups of friends who are joking with one another while you two just smile at the jokes and keep looking quietly at each other and feeling all kinds of feelings.

>>12833469
Rowling is great at hooking you into reading the next chapter. It's the best kind of addiction. She always ends the chapter with some kind of tempting clue as to what is about to happen, and you just have to turn the page and sacrifice another hour or so to read the following chapter!

R*ddit general

>>12833491
AAAAAAAAAAAAA FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFFF AAAAAA

>>12833501
Not gonna be ashamed for enjoying a childrens novel when I was a kid.

>>12833506
you should, at 11 I started with the Greeks, not some dumb magic shit

>>12833550
So you didn't start reading until you were 11? I'm talking ages 6 to 12 here. The magic starts to fade when the owl doesn't arrive

>>12833491
Most of this stuff is literally just British boarding school and Oxbridge tbphwy

>>12833676
Were you privately educated? Somehow I doubt it.

I just can't stop thinking about Dumbledore getting bummed

>>12833703
So many cozy experiences of Harry going to Dumbledore's office and receiving some advice or subtle tip. Imaging going to Hogwarts bros. Imaging wearing aesthetic formal uniform in an ancient stone building in the middle of nowhere full of kids learning about magic. Imaging walking to Hogsmeade with Hermione in the snow and having her kiss you suddenly on the cheek before blushing and walking faster ahead until you catch up and hold her elbow and kiss her back.

>>12833691
No, but I went to Oxbridge and it's pretty obvious where Rowling got her general setting from

>>12833364

It used to be like that, but then I grew up faster than Rowling could write the books and by part 6 and 7 I realized how shitty they were and no longer enjoyed the magic I experienced as a child. I read them to finish up the story but I no longer enjoyed them.

ahahhahahahahahhahahahahhahaha stupid niggers

>>12833713
Which one did you go to?

>>12833732
Oxford. Postgrad though, which doesn't really have the undergrad magic- partly because you're older and have done it all before, partly because (in my case at least) the accommodation wasn't in the historic buildings

>>12833742
Are you the one with the girlfriend who works in admin or whatever at Oxford?

>>12833752
Nope. Not here enough to have seen that one. Oxfordanon was funny, though

>>12833763
Fair enough. What was the postgrad experience like, overall? Did you benefit from it career-wise?

I've never liked Harry Potter, the only reason I took an interest in it was because of my sister, and now she's grown out of it because they're wish fulfilment stories for kids.

That's not to say there can't be good kid's media, just that HP isn't.

>>12833742
I'm seriously considering doing a PhD in Oxford, probably in theology. I have good prospects of getting in I believe, I have great grades and also a masters in philosophy. It would require me to move countries though and basically leave everything behind. Do you think having an Oxford PhD is worth it, moreso than a PhD from a "regular" university?

>>12833765
No, but that's probably because I fucked up and spent way too long doing it. Mind you, I can't see that a PhD helps for any career outside a narrow academic range, except heavily mathematical ones that might be useful in making rich people richer.

>>12833866
If you're serious enough about academia (I wasn't), then I'd say so. It's not a guarantee of getting good supervision or anything- my supervisor was awful, which is one reason I fucked up. But having a top 10 global university on your CV is clearly going to be a whole lot better than a top 100 (or whatever) one- prestige counts hugely in academia. Also if you're committed I'm sure the networking must help

Never got into Harry Potter. I was more of a Naruto kid myself.

>>12833580
This. Based and owlpilled.

>>12833550
> he didn't start learning greek by age 3
Pathetic.

>>12833364
Rowling, JK. Immensely dislike her...

>>12835861
What disease did this guy have

>>12835883
Liberalism

>first book I ever read at 9 was the Philosopher's Stone
>older sister, 13, is really into Harry Potter, has already read all the books (the first four were released so far)
>always encouraged me to read more
>used to read some parts to me before I went to bed
>used to come up with new spells together and talked about which house we would like to be in
>watched the movies together when they first came out
>fifth book comes out, she finishes in a few days, can't stop talking about it
>we're really exited about the fourth movie
>she is 15 now, I'm 11
>later that year she has a fatal accident on a school hiking trip, a week before her birthday
>we never got to see the fourth movie together
>visit her grave a few years later to bring her the last two books
>Now I'm the one reading to her

I miss you Anna, I hope you're well wherever you are

>>12836032

I liked HP when I was younger but when I started reading more and thinking back on it as I got older I just started picking holes and finding issues. JK Rowling herself and her obsessive horde of cult like fans also ruined it for me. His Dark Materials probably had a bigger influence on me. I feel more nostalgia reading those.

>>12836054
>His Dark Materials
As patrician as a children's book can be. I've read those at least 4 times, and at least once as an adult. They're so much fun. Also, having a separate yet related consciousness by your side is as appealing as knowing magic, if not more so.

>>12836072

Yeah I loved the story and I think the idea of having all these parallel worlds is very cool. But Will and Lyra's ending is one of my favourite endings to any character relationship in any fictional work. I recently listened to the whole series again on audiobook and the ending just gets sadder and sadder the older I get.

>>12833364
>hermione was black
>dumbledore is gay
>hogwarts didn't always have bathrooms
>anthony goldstein, ravenclaw, jewish wizard

>>12833364
>hours on the toilet reading and forgetting to wipe
fucking lol

>>12833550
based greekstarter

>>12836032
wow. my condolences man, i'm sorry for your loss.

>>12833364
good thread

Tfw when you read them in 1st and 2nd grade and remember them fondly only to pick one up years later and realize they’re garbage.

>>12836386
>Tfw I'll never attempt to read them ever again so my comfy memories arent tarnished

>>12836386
>tfw I figured they were garbage by book 3 and didn't continue
The only reason I even read it because my friend was a potterhead.

Harry Potter is fucking retarded and cringe shit :3

I could never get into this shit. I was too much of a fedora that was into military history, vikings, lord of the rings and other "sword" epics. Cheap magic just wasn't appealing. JK Rowling couldn't appeal to me. I don't know why, but 'today' I keep catching wind of her virtue-signaling and it baffles even me at how hard she's fucking up her own mythos by changing details of the characters to appeal to minorities and trannies. It must be all so confusing for most of the fans. I'm actually a bit proud to say that I was never hooked by this deranged woman's ideas. I'd hate it if Martin suddenly decided to make Jon Snow the Black Watch's cock mongler, or have Arya Stark grow up to be some butch lesbian.

>>12837400
It's a kids book

>>12833364

harry is a bitch that would be no where without his friends

would be straight up dead in all the books if it wasnt for ron or hermione or dumbledore, or snape saving his ass

the chosen one my ass

>>12837763
a kid's book obsessed by even 30 year olds at the height of its popularity.

>>12836032

Jesus, Anon. Heartfelt condolences

>>12836032
>she has a fatal accident on a school hiking trip

How does that happen?

>>12836111
Yes,sad and unnecessary. The reasons why the ending is sad,and I won't spoil it for others,are so arbitrarily stupid and avoidable. Never listen to angels.

They must be less fun now when there's no waiting for the next one.

>>12833364
>>12833398
>>12836187
I developed haemorrhoids as a child from reading on the toilet for hours - I felt psychologically very safe there.

Still have a few and it makes doing any butt stuff quite embarrassing - that's why I stimulate externally through the gooch.

>>12839401
hmm

>>12836032
fuuuckk

At what age should you give a kid the Potter books?
My nice is 9 and she likes the Philosopher's Stone but I remember the later books getting quite dark and full of teenager problems.

>>12840021
don't

>>12840021
do

>>12833364
what a pleb. So glad my father made me read the greek epics whilst I was a young child.

>>12833364
>spending hours on the toilet reading and forgetting to wipe
No wonder you have haemorrhoids.

>>12833742
Did a masters a cambridge
I loved it but it definitely lacked that undergrad magic as you say

>>12833713
>tfw rejected from oxford

>>12836072
>As patrician as a children's book can be.
But that's Alice in Wonderland, Charlotte's Web or Winnie the Pooh

>>12840145
Or Roald Dahl
>>12839401
>Harry Potter fan
>it makes doing any butt stuff quite embarrassing
Pottery

>>12833496
>taking an hour to read a chapter of Harry Potter

>>12840160
No, I've only seen the movies. Suppose it's clearly gay friendly though, fantasied about draco blowing harry several times.

>>12840021
Depends on maturity, if they can hack it they should read real books as soon as they can. But I guess it isn't your kid, so I'd say 1-4 are suitable for under-10s, though 4 has a freaky ritual and one somewhat disturbing death. 5-7 feature occasional light torture and more character death, but there's nothing sexual in the whole thing desu

>>12836386
yeah I loved them when I was young. Did a book report on prisoner of azkaban in 3rd grade. I read them all thrice, although my reading comprehension wasn't 100% and didn't catch on the some of the subtleties.

>>12840021
>>12840295
Like I said I was too young to understand so I just glossed over it. Like if you make a sexual innuendo in front of a first grader.

>>12836032

Here's some /mu/sic that provides the soul comfort

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO4XJA5kOCs

>>12833364
fucking zoomers

>>12833550
And did that make you a happy person? Because you sound sad and pretentious

>>12841696
Holy shit the restoration on this is amazing

>>12842724
re enactors bruh

Can someone please post the pasta of stretching legs, I chuckle every time.

>>12833713

She got her setting from Edinburgh Uni mate

>>12840145

My grandfather used to read me Winnie the Pooh when I was younger. He'd do all the voices aswell. He died a few years ago and I went to see the Christopher Robin film with my girlfriend and started having to hold back tears it was rough

>>12833364
i miss how immersive fiction was as a child
you could use your imagination to totally escape into this other world
thanks for reminding me how much i loved harry potter OP

>>12839126

I do think it adds to their stories. They're intended to be unwilling and unintended heroes and they never have happy endings.

i feel the same way