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What is your honest opinion on Harry Potter?

>> No.13559388

Better than mein kampf

>> No.13559393

Zero no Tsukaima did the idea better

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>> No.13559405

It is good that it led to people read more books. Shame that many never grew out of it.

I read the books up to the order of the phoenix. Competently written YA fiction but they have very little substance at the end of the day.

>> No.13559412

>>13559388
no

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>>13559278
Why would you need to read those books prior to Harry Potter? Is this a meme or am I missing something.

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>>13559416
Nevermind I just saw Jersey shore and Justin Bieber in the graph

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13559424

Never read it, never will.
Movies were okay and I have no interest in reading ya door stoppers

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>you need to read camus to understand goblet of fire

>> No.13559439

>>13559278
it's excellent.

for what it is.

>> No.13559445

>>13559424
If you don't have the attention span to read arguably the definitive book of the late 20th century you don't belong here ngl

>> No.13559515

>>13559445
I have the attention span, not the interest.

>> No.13559634

>>13559416
>>13559423
it's a joke/meme but at the same time has some truth in it hence it being a meme/joke. Such as Harry Potter in some cases drawing from the alchemical tradition.

>> No.13559642

No clue I did not read in middle school

>> No.13559649

>>13559278
I just noticed something, in Prisoner of Azkaban it's a hippogrif but the cover depicts a gryphon.

>> No.13559656 [DELETED] 

>>13559278
>no Finnegans Wake to help Ron understand his Irish ancestry

>> No.13559667

>>13559278 (OP) #
>no Finnegans Wake to help understand Ron's Irish heritage

>> No.13559736

>>13559515
Bro I think he called you a niglet. I wouldn't have taken it. Bounce back, say something mean to him.

>> No.13559744

>>13559278
I read the first 5 books cover to cover when I was poor and had stolen the books from the library because I was locked inside all day after school and had nothing else to do.

Then one day when I was about 14 or 15 I completely lost all interest. I think that was around the time I first discovered anime. I have less than 0 interest in them now, they're not terrible books but they just don't appeal to me anymore.

>> No.13559772

>>13559388
Based

>> No.13559797

>>13559278
the arrows in that chart make no sense, it's hurting my head

>> No.13559803

honestly, you just had to be there. if you weren't a kid or a teenager for the series, it's never going to appeal to you. it's good as children/ya lit, and it's really comfy and nostalgic if you read it when you were younger, but it's really just a 6-7/10 semi-solid straightforward fantasy series
hot take, I've read HP fanfic that are unironically better than classics of the western canon

>> No.13559840

Never interested me as a kid and sure as hell doesn't interest me as an adult. I did take the hat test and got Hufflepuff. That's fun to tell to people who like HP as from my understanding they're the least liked house but seem the comfiest to me.

>> No.13559848

>>13559278
I quite liked books 1, 2 and 5, to be honest.

>> No.13559889

Good reads, it's entertaining watching Rowling wrap herself up in this improv performance to figure out how her world works and the nonsensical mess it ends up being as a result. It's especially refreshing compared to the current obsession of sci fi and fantasy authors to try and be Tolkien with their world-building and inevitably not living up to that standard. They're not my favorite books but they're significantly better than average YA.

>> No.13559891

>>13559840
Hufflepuff has actually seen a recent surge in popularity, since as the former unpopular house, it was seen as free real estate by quirky girls to be even more quirky
honestly, I'd say the current least popular house is Slytherin, since most of the edgelords have left the fandom and the personality required to be in the house is relatively rare

>> No.13559965

>>13559891
I just did the Pottermore sort and got Slytherin :\

>> No.13559982

>>13559891
Can women just not ruin things I don't even care about? Goddamn.

>> No.13560004

>>13559423
My god, you are a fucking moron.

>> No.13560015

I read the first 6 books
1 to 5 I kinda feel like I read just because it was the biggest thing at the time.
6 I was in too deep and the book did honestly give a lot of backstory on everything
7 was so popular I could never get a hold of the book from the library at school or home. By the time I could get a copy I didn't care about the series anymore.

Actually, I'm not sure I ever read the philosophers stone. I may have only seen the movie.

>> No.13560039

>>13559803
>HP fanfic better than classics of the western canon
At least name some, I'm interested

>> No.13560044

I mostly hate how most women in my generation are obsessed with it.

I think I've had the first and second one read to me as a kid but they have never interested me at all.

>> No.13560062

>>13559649
Why are there so many fucking retards ITT?