Harry Potter has over the years developed a complicated legacy. JK Rowling has drawn controversy thanks to her transphobic statements, but the original works...

TW: Harry Potter

Was Harry Potter Ever Good?

No

Video discusses flaws of the Harry Potter works by J.K. Rowling with comparisons to how other fictional YA novels/tv shows handled problematic topics.

  • AlicePraxis [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    5·
    7 months ago

    I’m sorry but if you’re gonna make the 50,000th video essay about Harry Potter you’re gonna have to tackle it from a more interesting angle than “thing good or bad??”

    almost all works of art are both good and bad. HP is good in its worldbuilding and sense of adventure, bad in its blatant bigotry and middling in its storytelling

    I lost interest when I had to read about all the characters “snogging”

    • SSJ2Marx@hexbear.netEnglish
      6·
      7 months ago

      Yes but have you considered that I enjoy listening to youtubers dunk on the world’s most prominent TERF for being a terrible writer all along?

    • RION [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      6·
      7 months ago

      I lost interest when I had to read about all the characters “snogging”

      looks like someone isn’t a thongpilled Angusmaxxer