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It pisses me off so bad that JK Rowling had to be a fucking transphobic racist piece of shit. This is me off to an extreme extent because she is a fucking genius author when it comes to one thing. She chose one generation and then wrote a story specifically for that generation, having the writing style get older with the generation. And then she wasted it by being a horrible, bigoted piece of shit and filling the story with the same type of garbage. Like credit where credit is due. That one thing that she did is fucking genius. But she had to ruin it by being herself.

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rami@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
If it makes you feel any better there tons of video essays tearing the series apart. It’s not particularly genius, very little if any of what she did was original and from the very beginning it was chocked full of racism, antisemitism, fatphobia and ablelism.

Also that’s an insult to colonoscopies, as they’re important and save lives.

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- Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I’m not saying the books are genius, I’m saying the move to write the books for a specific generation is genius. Like most books in a series will be written all in the same style. The HP books were written to ‘grow up’ along with the people who were reading them. That idea and tactic was genius. Literally nothing else.
  
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  - tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    animorphs…
    
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Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Her editor was very good. As the books went on and JK got veto power over her editor, the books got worse and more problematic.

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- squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Makes a lot of sense. 1-4 are great, fun, whimsical magical mystery books. 5 is painfully annoying. Couldn’t get through 6 and 7. As a kid I skipped through them only reading the most important section.
  
  I have since tried to read the 6th book, listen to the audiobook version or watch the movie multiple times and couldn’t manage to get through it even once. It just sucks.
  
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  - Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    I grew up reading the books as they came out, and where I had read (or had my mom read to me when I was too young to read them myself) the first 3 books repeatedly, I definitely aged out by the time 6&7 were released. I think I read 6 once and I couldn’t even finish 7.
    
    I also noped out of the films after the spider in 2 (holy crap I was way too young to be seeing that film btw!)
    
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  - tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    oh weird, I liked the darker tones of 567
    
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cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Man, I feel exactly the same about loving wrap dresses. Biyltch who popularized them was nearly as bad as Rowling.

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