Did Harry Potter change a generation?

probably.
i never read that shit.
and now i'm here.

>>138283885
Just like anything else that got popular, leftists cling onto it to substitute personalities.

Yeah when I was 12 I read like a quarter of the first book and decided it was stupid.

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>>138283885
It made an entire generation okay with magic.
Now that same generation rejects Jesus Christ.
They will teach their kids to do the same.

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>>138283885
I read them all - great books. Id have to reread to pick out the political shit but it was, for the sake of those here, not a very integrated racially series. Almost all the main characters were 100% white.

>>138283885
I tried reading the books, absolute trash and i love reading fiction

>>138284300
The illuminati is also almost 100% white.

I'm around your age and remember reading these books when they came out. I never got obsessed or super enthusiastic, and I was pretty disinterested in them by the time the 6th and 7th came out but I read them just to see how it all ended. Never saw the movies.

The books are strange but I think the religious resistance to it is a red herring. As a matter of fact, the religious argument against it seems to be that witchcraft is some kind of satan dabbling when the fact is the lid has been kept on all kinds of spiritual "magic". I am pretty far right but believe in stuff like telepathy so take my commentary knowing that.

The reason why Harry Potter is evoked is simply because it was so popular and familiar in many childhoods. Same thing with Star Wars. There's nothing special about Harry Potter per se, it's just that underdeveloped adults in their 20's and 30's are infantilized and retreat to childhood idols in times of distress. Children use cartoon characters to help make sense of the world, and since adults are really just older kids these days, they can't help but compare Harry Potter to political contexts.

>>138283885
i didnt read that lit trash. i had my classmate write my papers for me in the 5th grade. i was fucking based since primary school.

I never understood the hype. Like a worse version of Lord of the rings. The adults are idiots. There is a lot of random shaming and there is inherent segregation at the school which is maybe why the left loves it.

I read them as a kid, never picked them up again.

My friend's girlfriend in high school was obsessed with them though, and she was a bluepilled normie that is now married to a cuck kike and gets regularly railed by niggers,

>>138283885
See, the phenomenon you're witnessing is that people who like to read end up as center-left liberals.

It's not that complicated.

>>138285596
I read more than anyone I know.

Depending on your view, I am far-right. Try again cuck.

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>>138283885
I'm the same age and never got this shit, someone got me the first book and I never cared to finish it before the movies started getting made. Even when they showed up, they weren't compelling enough to make me care about wizards and broom-polo.

I liked the first few movies but that's it. It really shit itself in the end.

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Mfw the church was right all along and those books were satanic corrupters of the youth

>>138283885
Harry Potter is a pure, unadulterated hero's story, told entirely from a secular humanistic perspective.

>>138283885
>>138284842
Harry Potter is only one symptom of a wider culture of millennial bluepilled morons who stick their heads in fantasy and ignore reality.

Doctor Who, Rick and Morty, Game of Thrones, Big Bang Theory - these things are similarly insufferable, and yet beloved by tons of weirdos.

Harry Potter, like Star Wars, employs archetypal themes and motiffs which resonate in children naturally.

I was obsessed when I was younger. 22 now. Off the top of my head I can only think of a handful (less than 5) of my peers who still even think about it.

It's a big cultural experience that we all shared, but I don't think that many people still consider it.

Will absolutely be reading the books to my kids in the future though.

My sister loves Harry potter, Clinton, and is currently a nanny in Sweden

>>138283885
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>>138285077

I love Harry Potter and I know everything there is about the series but when you look at the actual information that Harry Potter provides, it doesn't make sense.

For example, it is right for pureblood Wizards to discriminate against Halfblood and non-magical (Muggle) Wizards.

Hogwarts has a school of around 336 students. There are roughly 12 students per house, with 4 houses, and 7 grades. 12*4*7

Of that student population, nearly 70% of them are purebloods, 20% are halfbloods, and only 10% are muggle born. The UK has a population of 65 million and only 33 of Hogwart's is muggleborn. That means the occurrence for magical individual among the non magical is almost negligible. This means that overtime if purebloods were breed with muggles, it would dilute their magical bloodlines and they will overtime be less magical.

The book is ultimately about the victory of the non magical and halfbloods over pureblood society. Purebloods are attempting to protect their way of life and society from foreign influence but lose.

>>138286289
>Game of Thrones
I agree with everything you said up until that point

>>138283885
They're good children's books but far, far too simplified for the answer to be anything but "the average person is getting dumber"
I mean, Harry can't save the day until the literal piece of Voldemort stuck in him dies. Now he's 100% good! Barf

>>138284236
Literally me. Cliched, but true.

>>138284039
I read that shit.
And now I'm here.
I can't watch the movies thought because the books say Hogwarts was built in the 1300s, but the movies' castle features heavy Tudor-era architecture. Why Rowling said the look was perfect is beyond me,

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>>138286144
Harry's symbol is a lighting bolt marked
on his forehead. It doesn't get much more obvious than that does it? The books are baby's first occult meme and have served as a good metaphor for rallying the ignorant masses as most kids, even the dullards, have read the series. Such base.

>>138283885
there's not really anything wrong with them BUT the book did seem to have a particular draw towards infantilized fantasies that resulted in the overabundance of the phenomenon known as "fanfiction". A little bit before my time but similar was the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I would say these two cultural icons, first seemingly through fanfiction and then eventually on tumblr and related platforms had the indirect influence of creating subcultures that would eventually merge into the "SJW" culture

>>138286473
I enjoy GoT as well, but even you must admit that the show written by two Jews which involves a strong wymyn leading hordes of barbarian savages into white man's land is a bit...jewy.

>>138283885
Nah, it's just that it was the first new, big thing to happen in their lifetime that they grew up with. Combine that with emerging internet culture and fandom shit (shipping etc.) and it snowballed into what it is today.

It would probably have been something else if it wasn't Harry Potter.

>>138283885

it got kids reading books. thats a definite plus. just remember that kids have shit taste at everything and they'll get better

>>138283885
I read every book and the last one is utter shit. Perfect setups for redemption and intrigue and all of it is wasted. Then they kick you in the balls by killing off like fifteen characters off screen.

>>138283885
My parents wouldn't let me watch it, because it was witchcraft.

Really dodged a bullet.

>>138286968
This is absolutely true, anecdotally of course.

I read the first four books in my elementary school library. Kids were at midnight releases for BOOKS. That's pretty cool, honestly. You don't see that happening often anymore.

>>138285977
Literally this.

>>138285505
It is nothing like lotr. Potter is about high school magic anime. Lotr is an epic about the deeds of heroes and nations.

I still like harry potter and I've been writing harry potter fanfics for the last 5 years.
It's all just good escapist fun that started in my childhood with the first book, and I say this as a white traditional conservative who hates nazi's as much as I hate communists.

>>138283885
I read them but I never was into them like other people. After I finished them that was it.

The problem is people are manchildren these days and are too fucking stupid/lazy/spoiled/anti-intellectual to read adult fucking literature and want to cling to their childhood.

People would have been shamed and told to grow the fuck up in previous generations, but shame is mostly dead except for Political Correctness.

Bump for interest.

I know what OP means

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>>138283885
It was pretty much pseudo-mythos sugarcoated for a modern audience, similar to how Frozen was. Instead of the traditional archetypes all you get is horseshit that rejects it, which might help to explain why millennials hate reality so much. The Christians were right all along

J K Rowling is a shady character involved with adoption agency Lumos which coincidentally have the childlover logo. She have also been very rabid against Trump, probably because of the whole dnc pizzagate saga

>why do young adults stuck in arrested development who long for a fantasy world where everything works out because "magic" all seem to be bluepilled normies who vote for idealism peddling politicians.

That sure is a tough one, OP.

>>138284842
I think you mean Jewish. Remember Jews enjoy larping as whites

>>138283885
they were just mad about witches and wizards and other mythical stuff.

>>138283885
My mommy read me the first two books :^). I finished the whole series btw.. I'm here now. Though I find it funny how I always thought the hysterics over it being satans work were ridiculous but now I understand.

>>138287595

books are media anon. you think they don't have their fingers in that pie too?

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Harry potter is pretty redpilled
The main conflict in the book is bretty good. The normal wizards are isolationists who just want to build a magical wall to keep muggles out and deport any that get in. The Fashy wizards want to dominate the muggles and use them as cheap labor. The civic nationalists win of course.

haven't read a single one.

>>138285077
>Star Wars
>not politically charged
really dude? the first 3 is like ANTIFA vs le evil fascists

>>138287326
do you do anything weird in your stories? like gender-shifting pansexuality? that seems really big in that particular community

>>138283885
I love(d) the fuck out of the books but my enthusiasm for them has been tarnished thanks to all the bullshit recently. The whole muggle vs not thing shouldn't have affected anyone because muggles in the story were presented as absolute garbage in comparison to wizards. If anything the story highlights exceptionalism and differences in cultures.

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>>138287886
No doubt.

>>138286095
Wow it's almost like these are mass produced and handed out

>>138283885
I have a friend who grew up on these and he ended up a Liberal, but nowhere near as bad as the whole Antifa crowd. For the most part he's just cucked on economic issues.

>>138287949
Shit how did you know?
Not explicitly pansexuality but definitely gender changing, specifically male to female.

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>>138284236
I got like half a chapter into the first one reading about shoelace wizard wandering around parking lots or some shit and got bored.

But I had already read about Redwall, in hid sight. Redwall is pretty fucking RedPilled.

>Civilized animals build wall stained red with the blood of their enemies
>Literally an entire book dedicated to "Vermin cannot into society"

To bad the cartoon series was censored to a One Piece 4Kidz level.

FUCKING VERMIN GET OUT REEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>138283885
>I can recall Baptist preachers warning of the whole phenomenon back when it began.

they do this over anything potentially fun or enjoyable.

The books were amazing desu if you dont like them you are just a fucking dumbass nigger faggot kike jew nigger

>>138288047

probably not mass produced. the useful idiots will provide their own signs, just tell them what to write

>>138288142
ok, I'm not judging you, but why do you do this? why harry potter? what's the connection? why is this so common of a desire for people in the harry potter fanfiction community?

>>138288230

>tfw food porn

developed a taste for pastries after reading several of these books. thanks Jacques, its mostly your fault i'm fat now

Some people just wish magic was real.
I cant blame em, magic doesnt so cool ass shit.

As for why liberals always bring up harry potter, my guess is that its just the liberal persona to attach onto something or relate to something through another medium ie a book like harry potter

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>>138288230
I never read Redwall but it always looked cozy

I'm going to start my kids with Deltora

>>138283885
They seem off because they were probably the first form of media that our generation had where we could actually picture being the "good" guy. Not just some superhero but a hero who had a normal life.

>>138287595
Yes, I almost forgot to mention that in my original post. Rowling is herself a screaming liberal banshee. She's exactly the same as her fans.

>>138283885
it is simplistic, good and evil. basic

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I tried to get into them back in the day but the books were too fucking long and stopped reading. I was more into pokemon as a kid and was playing pokemon emerald instead of reading whatever books normies liked.

>>138286289
Everything you listed was "good" at first and then once it set its hooks in people it got whack as fuck. I hate game of thrones more than anyone and i admit the first season is watchable. Dont forget walking dead. I HATE the walking dead and all zombie shit, first season is watchable.
Rick and Morty fucked me up. First season was great. Second was trash.

Also, RTJ, but I think im doxxing myself now. Good thing i don't have any friends. Fucking Shiller Mike and little Jewey Meline.

Point is its orchestrated. They make something objectively cool and then when people integrate it into their personality they crank up the propaganda. You don't want to admit it's not cool anymore because they means you're not cool. Watch for this pattern.

TLDR JUST READ THE LAST PARAGRAPH

>>138288324
Do you ever remember how you felt when you fantasised about what you would do if you won the lottery for a billion dollars?
It's feels like that except you're doing it with a love of a pre-existing world and the characters. I guess for me the main draw is that it's fun to write and I've always fantasised about gender bending and being a wizard at hogwarts.

>>138288515
>Cozy

At times yes. You are reading about FOOOOOD, to the point where you can skip pages about the Redwallers eating a shit ton of food.

At other times, it's time to kill fucking bandits and you meet up with a rogue, half-crazy, Otter who's first paragraph in the book is about him ripping the throat out of a rat spying on the main character's campfire. He strolls up the the protagonists RPG party, smiles with his teeth that he sharpened and a mouth full of "rat fur and gore" and basically says "I respect your bravery to go after these bandits, but I'm joining you now whether you like it or not because your kiddie shit "questing" is going to get you killed.

Then it goes back to JOLLY FUCKING WOT WOT!

>>138288515
Shit I didn't know americans read deltora quest, those were the shit back when I was a kid.
Were they big when you were a kid?

>>138288925

I blame JK Rowling for your existence.

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>>138286384

Fuck yeah, I was really into Harry Potter as a kid but it was completely from that perspective. My friends are I were all little racist white and east asian kids in a very black/hispanic school. We LARPed as Slytherins and Death Eaters.

>>138288919
This guy gets it

>>138288925
You're trolling

>>138283885
The people who still seem to obsess over these books around our age tend to be fat white women. Everyone else has gotten over the fad pretty much.

>>138288925
>Do you ever remember how you felt when you fantasised about what you would do if you won the lottery for a billion dollars?

interesting. I tried writing Battlestar Galactica (2003) fanfiction at one point, I have pages and pages of autistic world-building I came up with, even working on and inventing languages. I only wrote about 10k of the actual story and haven't touched it in years, no one else has ever read it. It's pretty good, good pacing

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>>138283885
I love the books and movies.
I love ASOIAF as well

not a blue pilled normie

i actually really enjoyed Harry Potter, but i can separate fantasy from reality. these people are just as impressionable as the people who read the stories in the Quran or the Bible and try to apply it to every facet of life.

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>>138289510
The fire fades, Anon

Who will rise to kindle it this time?

People just never grew up. I'm 27, grew up with this series, and the MSM would define me as a Nazi.

Childhood is wanting to be Harry.
Adulthood is knowing Voldemort was right.

>There is no Light and Dark
>Just Power and those too Weak to seek it.
I don't approve of his methods but Tom had a fucking great motto.
And please kill me if I ever vote Socialist(PSOE)

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>>138289295
Don't worry, I understand just how subversive and dangerous this kind of thinking can be on the minds of young children, like I said I'm a traditional conservative so if deluded kids enjoy the things I write and decide to become a trans person who mutilates their genitals and act as if they're female it would make me feel horrible.

>>138289151
I didn't know anyone else that read them at the time. But I grew up around niggers and spics so I don't know what other white people were reading. I genuinely didn't even realize Harry Potter was as popular as it was, or else I might not have gotten into it because I was a haughty asshole as a kid

they're pretty damn good though, nice puzzles, the world is interesting, good characters, etc.

Degenerate book supports race mixing. "Mudbloods are good" "pure blood wizard bad" " all are equal". Typical liberal Jew propoganda with a coat of wizard paint so you don't notice they are subverting the children's values

>>138283885
That preaching landwhale all
>Harry potter is the devil!
>sorcery is the devils work
>if you read this book/watch this film, you're demonic n sheeeiit!
Top kek.
Only in America and Haiti you get this type of superstitious bollocks. Grow the fugg up you silly negro.

>>138285505
It's basically a story where the kids get everything they ever wanted.

Literal fantasy novel series about "everyone gets a trophy"

>>138290164
Ron was a Lazy fag who didn't deserve Hermione and Harry had an Oedipus complex

>inb4 Stephen King pasta

>>138289777
>applying Bible fiction to your everyday life
At least Harry Potter doesn't have any (((heroic jews)))

>>138283885
I read 4 of them and grew out of it. I understood why people were hyped about each release, but it's sudden resurgence as a political talking point over the last 2 years confuses me. I wouldn't doubt it if they were ghost written.

>>138290022
Did you ever read Rowan ?
Those books were pretty good as well.

>>138283885
the only thing demonic is the niggers and jews in it and it distracts people from reality

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There's nothing deep and meaningful about the connection: the bad guys in the books are obsessed with the purity of one's 'magical' (white) blood. That's why it's constantly invoked by people. Pic related.

>>138288230
Oh yeah, I remember these. There's a whole shitload of them, like 14 or something, but they all follow the same basic plot, just with different characters, and it gets kinda tedious.

>>138290521
Dude, Zabini was a nigger, italian AND pureblood

I remembered /b/ yelling spoilers everywhere they could a decade ago. Some of it were the first things I saw on youtube.

>>138283885
Ive read all them and Im 28 too
Ive been conservative my entire life if anything far right

Its a book, fiction

>>138289775
you're right. you just have shit taste in (((literature)))

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Now compare that to Lord of the Rings, which a lot of right-wingers love, which is about shitskins invading white countries.

>>138283885
Never read that shit and never met someone who enjoys that shit. I mostly know about Harry Potter because of 4chan. I live in Surfside, Miami btw.

>>138290437
no, but if they're by Jennifer Rowe I'm sure they're a good series

has anyone read the Wind in the Willows? The cartoon movie is really cozy but I've never read the book

>>138290810
I also grew around people who thought reading is for nerds, so my friends were mostly into wwe, pokemon and Naruto at the time.

>>138283885
its over rated as fuck but
the publishing of each book matched with the generation growth
they vote for the left because

> Baptist preachers warning of the whole phenomenon back when it began.

instead of embracing a literature piece that encouraged kids to read they rejected it
why would you vote or join people who shat on your favorite book each year?

if you republicans had embraced it then things would be different , same with comics , video games, fiction movies etc etc

sorry to burst your conspiracy bubble though

>>138288230
I would like to give a synopsis from memory of the first Redwall book for those interested

Basically civilized rodents, Mice, Moles and Badger live in Redwall. A castle deemd unbreachable by ledgend, and founded by an old great hero who most think is just a story.

A Ghegis Khan Rat comes leading a vermin horde, Rats, Weasels, Shrews and shit. His guts are rotting of disease and he's an evil badass so he wants to take the Unreachable Redwall before he dies. Everyone thinks he's a scary bedtime story for kids, because Redwallers think they are so safe as generations have never had to deal with invaders and shit because Redwall's history is basically "attackers attack and they fucking die on the walls". Also being that everyone is mice and rats, life spans are very short in this universe, which is sort of a minor point about "what you do with your short life for the good of those you leave behind."

Basically rat Ghengis Khan roles up and the Redwallers call him a faggot, but then shit gets real as he forms a blockade on their trade routes and starts starving them to death, killing their convoys and sending Assassins into the castle.

The rest of the story is basically the Redwallers waking the fuck up from their candy land fantasy of peace in a land of vermin, literally taking up the swords of their ancestors and REMOVING VERMIN REEEEEEEEEEEEE GET OUT MY REDWALL!

Also there are like 40 pages in each book devoted solely about food because the author has a boner for pastries.

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>Fiction Helps To Increase People’s Empathy With Others

>All sorts of narratives, including literary fiction, TV shows and even certain video games could help boost empathy.

http://www.spring.org.uk/2016/07/fiction-positive-effect-mind.php

>>138283885
Great series and interesting lore. Antagonist are race purity advocates.
~{[Fiction]}~

>>138283885
Grow up. Maybe you could right a book about how MLP Friendship is magic revolutionised your worldview.

Your generation sucks no new music or decent counter culture a la rave or punk.

For the record JK Rowling is a massive cunt. I live in Scotland and we all hate her.

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>Harry Potter is a leftist conspiracy

No you fucking retard. Harry Potter is a story about a boy who starts with nothing growing up into a wizard who shoves his wand up the ass of the most powerful douchebag in Europe.

There's oodles of themes in it that people love, you know because they're emotionally fulfilling, and if that bothers you you can just go fuck yourself. It's got:
>Rags to riches (Harry)
>Defeating slavery (House elves)
>The honorable poor (The Weasleys)
>Resistence against tyranny (Dumbledores Army)
>Respect for power (Harry throwing away the elder wand)
>Anti-Discrimination (Slytherin's a bunch of assholes)
>The right are cowards (Voldemorts followers are bitches)
>Good and righteousness triumphing over the evil and unjustly powerful

If that bothers you because you're the kind of shitheaded psychopath that sympathizes with Voldemort and the Death Eaters, then you're a fag and you should probably kill yourself.

>>138286968
>That was a plus

Given how it turned out... Was it really?

>>138290789
Not really. It's more a story about overcoming temptation and a hero's journey, and about the magical things in the world giving way to the mundane regardless of which side they're on.

>>138290789
if by shitskins you refer to humans you are right because

>one of the weakest and least intelligent race
>will replace the future races because of their rapid population
>everyone is ok with it

My brother loves HP and seems to lean leftist on FB but he owns 9mm binary firing system ar's with silencers.

>>138290612
Yea, really you can read like the first three and pick and maybe Badger King and Rabbit Bros. They are good reading for maybe 2nd - 5th graders. Definitely a book series were as a kid you eventually go "I like this, but, I'm too old for this now".

Kind of like the Ender Series. Theirs a fucking billion books in the series but really only the first ones and a sporadic does of the later ones are good.

>>138283885
Here's the redpill about Harry Potter

Like most exceptionally popular things in our society, they don't become popular organically, they become popular and they become glorified because they serve a purpose. Facebook served a purpose to collect data on everyone. Feminism became popular to double the labor force. Self driving cares are becoming popular to take away your freedom of movement. Harry Potter is no different.

Harry Potter is just another subversive, Jewish-promoted piece of media. How is it so? Christian values are staunchly anti-witchcraft. Harry Potter essentially glorified witchcraft and made it mainstream and cool. It is just another subversive effort to slowly undermine and erode any belief in Western Christian values. Same with gay marriage, same with atheism, same with Richard Dawkins. All these things are tools which serve their purpose to destroy us. Harry Potter was no different. The book was almost an exact copy of book a different woman had written some years earlier, no joke.

>>138285505
>Like a worse version of Lord of the rings
That's Eragon. Harry Potter is the mediocre T H White.

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>>138283885
Lets get antifa labeled as terrorists, official white house petition here:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/formally-recognize-antifa-terrorist-organization-0

For those who don't know what antifa is, it is a far-left domestic terrorist group (only considered so in 1 state, for now) that is part of the alt-left and promotes killing cops, destruction of private property, anti-white racism, open borders, islamic terrorism and the implementation of communism thru means of violent revolution.

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>>138291778
>The book was almost an exact copy of book a different woman had written some years earlier, no joke.

this is the type of lines people write when they don't have sources or can't remember what those sources are called. But if you I'd like to see them unless you're just referring to the "school story" genre?

JK Rowling is probably a pedophile.

>>138286337
>archetypal themes and motiffs which resonate in children
Hey look, I found someone gullible. Stop sniffing your own farts. Children don't care about your theater BS.

I just started the movies the other day, i think I'm on the 5th movie? Harry is too much of a mary sue, there's really not much of a political or racial thing in them other than the wizards do think highly of them selves and some of them hate mugles or non magic users. Also it doesn't make sense that harry is so much of a fucking pussy when he knows dracos dad is helping voldemort but just keeps it to himself for like 3 films so far not even telling the head master.....
I don't think the problem with the movies, and possibly the books would be anything OP is suggesting it, its just a lot of people are age saw them as a child and see the characters as good references for making dumb points. Also modern day JK rowling would have wrote the books and movies 100% differently.

>>138291631
>shitting on the only house who wasnt into teen drama bullshit and didnt try to control everything with a messiah complex

(((Gryffindor)))I get all the points what a coincidence detected

>>138283885
All the people I know who are hardcore fans all read nothing but Young Adult novels. And the authors who write them are very left leaning in their politics.

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>>138288230
One of my favorite series, but >>138290612
has a point, they do get tedious
>>138287595
has anyone really looked into her? her whole rags-to-riches story is almost too good to be true. Maybe it is. Ghost-writing books has been going on for centuries. I hear her last book was a piece of shit that nobody liked, and she released it under a pseudonym. Maybe her ego made her write and publish her own real work, but it also made her not want to use the "J.K. Rowling" name, because it's phony.
Much like another Trump-hater, Katy Perry - whose real name is not Katy Perry.

>>138291859
That was apretty good takedown. U think at his age he would be wise enough to either put his fist through that antifa or not show up at all to this farce lmao

It's about a boy who is totally special from the beginning, constantly breaks the rules, suffers no consequences.

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>>138283885
Yes, anon. I'm 29, it showed up when I was in 6th grade in my area and people were freaking out over it. I heard "book about witchcraft and wizardry" and saw it was popular with the normiest or normies in my grade and elected not to read it. I wasn't against it entirely, it simply did not interest me since I was not into fantasy and I was not into whatever the normie kids were fawning over.

Went to college, all the bluepilled kids from the liberal arts school have formed an official university "Quiddich" team (if I spelled that incorrectly I don't give a fuck). Walking between classes on Tuesdays, walk past their LARP-fest. They have literally brooms between their legs sprinting around the intermural sports field shrieking to one another about whatever ball they're supposed to be tossing around. Shake my head at the intense faggotry and continue walking.

Fast forward to last year. Working on project at the office with a 28 year old woman who is bluepilled beyond belief. Daily political discussions about how much she loves Hilldawg as I uncomfortably try to hide my power level. Hillary loses election Nov. 8th. Girl comes into work on the 9th crying. Actually crying. Crying tears. At work. Our team tunes in on a nearby TV to the concession speech once they got her ass sobered up. I'm holding back extreme joy and laughter, she's still sobbing between outbursts of "its not fair!". Friday of that week rolls around, I ask her as we're packing up our stuff if she has any good plans for the weekend. Small talk I've learned to make for the sake of the normies. I don't care what she's doing.

>I'm going to see Fantastic Beasts

Confusion paralyses my brain for a moment. Is she referring a specific thing, or is this some sort of euphemism for "going to the zoo" or something. I ask what it is.

>Ugh, of course you don't know what it is, anon. You're such a weirdo. It's the newest movie in the Harry Potter universe, duh!

mfw I realize they made more.

>>138292485
>Ghost-writing books has been going on for centuries

I actually genuinely believe that the series is too well written:
>>138291419
and thought out for Rowling to have written it. For what purpose if any besides making money, I don't know

>>138291778
No, the only things the book had in common was being a fantasy book and using the word "muggles". The same author had also written an unrelated, unpublished children's book about a little kid named Larry Potter with glasses, who vaguely looked like Harry Potter. It was proven that he hadn't originally been given a last name until after the HP books. The same woman also falsely claimed that the books had sold billions of copies worldwide and cited 'reviews' that didn't exist, then claimed all the evidence had been lost in a tornado.

Not a fan or defender, but get the facts right. Some people are just greedy. You could probably make a better argument that Rowling ripped off HP from the nerdy kid in Nightmare on Elm Street 3, or the movie Troll.

>>138292152
lazy faggot, there's others who didn't even bother to file lawsuits

http://io9.gizmodo.com/5683905/everything-harry-potters-been-accused-of-ripping-off

We read this book as a class in grade 4... i was literally the only one who hated it b/c it creeped me out. I cant describe the feeling, but I will say mentally imagining the story made me uneasy even at that age

>>138292960
Leaf

>>138286688
> not watching a movie because of the architectural difference from the books
honestly, I can't blame you

>>138286384
The opposite is true. Voldemort is an idiot who will get all of the Wizards killed. Breeding with Muggleborns can produce extremely powerful wizards because Magic manifests randomly in people at times and there are plenty of instances in which people with magical parents are completely non magical, Squibs. But Halfbloods seem to be more often than not even more powerful (Just look at Voldemort, snape, harry, et cetera) Than purebloods. Muggleborns also tend to have greater natural talent, which makes sense as they're the progenitors of a new magical bloodline. But the point remains that if Voldemort exposes wizards to the world they will be exterminated. Voldemort is arrogant enough to think that these backwards, insulated small population of peoples with vast powers can survive the overwhelming majority of humankind arrayed against them when one of them declares war on them. The story is not about victory of non magical over pureblood, it's about the victory of isolation and secrecy over destructive conflict and emergence.

>>138283885
As someone who read them all when I was a kid, I have to say that it never really registered in my consciousness once the last movie came out
I think it's only used by the politically illiterate because it was such a big phenomena that it can be assumed that any reference you make to it will be inherently understood by everyone, and the fact that your referring to political discourse with a story made for children never registers as ridiculous

>>138292707
That's because your a retarded paranoid schizophrenic

>>138283885
I have never read a harry potter book in my entire life. ive only seen the first 5 movies

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>>138292833
>get the facts right
I could make a better argument that Rowling ripped of Neil Gaiman's "Books of Magic" series that started in 1990
it's a good comic btw
>pic_related, Timothy Hunter and his owl

>>138283885
it's beacuse they went all in and then later doubled down on their "geek" identity.

each of them have their own reasons for clinging on this long, but they're all equally pathetic

>>138291419
The fact that you equate the right with Voldemort's followers shows how much of a brainwashed mental house elf you are

>>138283885

Meh I read all the books as they release, starting from the first when I was pretty young. I'm not huge fan, but I'm an avid reader and I like to read popular stuff just to be informed on what is currently trending in society.

It's mostly just a silly adventure book with an obviouse bad guys are nazi's theme. Nothing uncommon for post ww2 british literature.

>>138283885
People born in the 80s and 90s seem retardedly obsessed with harry potter

Why hasn't anyone noticed that dr.who is inherited by crazies?

>>138291222
>>138291222
sounds like america

>>138283885
>They've read the books, they've seen the movies and they know all the lore.
This is me. They were fun books. I'm a right-winger. Stop being retarded and getting triggered over everything, including fantasy books for teens, it's SJW-tier behaviour.

>>138293277
Naw, it's because they're politically minded but also retarded and nostalgic for their childhood- people who never grew up, who never read anything more meaningful than harry potter or star wars and now use those as their universal references for why X politician is a BAD BAD GUY.

Teaching people to read then not teaching them the classics was a mistake.

>>138293274

No not at all, I've read them both and Rowling is a coherent author while Neil Gaiman's is a drugged up hippie that makes Rowling look like a white nationalist.

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>>138285077
The really funny thing is how they flipped out about Harry Potter and completely ignored truly dangerous to religion stuff like pic related.

Who /Slytherin/ here?

>>138293274
Oh yeah. There are a lot of possible sources.

I just highly doubt it was the "Rah and the Muggles" shit, especially considering the other things the woman lied about.

I love Harry Potter but I'm a righty. Hmm.

I read the first 4 or 5 harry potter books when I was in elementary school, but then I lost interest. I read all of the wheel of time books until the guy died though. I wonder if I would have turned into a normie if I hadn't started watching anime in 12th grade.

>>138291222
I heard there's so much food because the author originally told his stories to blind people so he focused on non-visual descriptions.

>>138293805

>>138293805
>Teaching people to read then not teaching them the classics was a mistake.

yeah, maybe that's why they feel such a need for identitarianism, they have no context of themselves in history

>>138288355
this is all i remember about redwall books
i didnt know there were so many types of pastries

>>138293917
>truly dangerous to religion stuff
Like Protestantism and racism.

I think it has the same effect as the bible did on past generations. savior vs. evil satan-like villan. all children's movies/books pretty much follow the same tropes in religious texts. that said, their "pope" (jk rowling) has directly pointed out a new evil in Trump. Worshippers follow.

>>138294124
Like literally killing God and saving mankind by recreating orginal sin.
Sorry for the spoliers.

>>138283885

Fandom. The answer to your question is fandom.

It has little to do with the content of the book. The book is pretty good for children's lit. The problem is with people that use that world to fill a void they have in their life. Then they get more attached to it, and crazier by the day.

It happened with Supernatural, a show about two dudes listening to classic rock, driving a vintage muscle car around the states, and hunting down demons with shotguns and revolvers. How the fuck did it become insanely popular with fat blue haired tumblr girls? You tell me.

Nothing makes sense.

>>138283885
I'm 28 and loved Harry Potter as a kid.

>>138293891
>Neil Gaiman's is a drugged up hippie
I agree, but if Potter was ghost-written then it's a different story

>>138290612
>>138288230
They were super repetitive and formulaic, but when I was 8-12 years old I enjoyed it anyway. I even found the repeating themes and plots comforting somehow. Maybe I have ass burgers obsession with redwall or something... my mom always said so...
I've read 21/22 of them, the one I haven't read came ot in 2011 and was the last one before the author died.

I was so exited when my mom showed me that there was a cartoon but when I watched it I felt annoyed by how toned down it was. The vermin TICKLED a guy. TICKLED. I'm pretty sure in the book the vermin have no qualms about brutally torturing people, and when I was a kid I found the cartoon stupid. Looking back the Redwall series could get super grim. Also, I'm pretty sure they butchered the plot of redwall somehow and added a Mary Sue that didn't exist.

The fact that redwall was so dark at times is why I had a super hard time getting into other books as a kid. Everything else was boring.

>Literally an entire book dedicated to "Vermin cannot into society"
Outcast of Redwall. Lets see if I remember. This mousemaid finds a ferret kid who is the son of a evil vermin lord pirate guy (ferrets are vermin). She takes him home to redwall and tries to raise him despite the warnings of everyone in the Abbey. He was a mean little kid but as a teenager he committed worse and worse crimes until he murdered a guy. He gets banished and the she and her friends leave to find him. He gets in a fight with his evil father and sacrifices himself to save the mousmaid (I think her name is Byronia?). Byronia eventually concludes that though the ferret sacrificed his life in the end, even if he had lived, he would never truly be able to overcome his bad nature.
All this caused her to finally grow up, and Byronia later became Abbess after the book ended (leader of redwall).
The end.
Also there was a third plot in the book about a badger named sunflash but I obviously didn't find it interesting enough to remember.

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>>138292919
interesting read, I was just mocking your vague wording

I've been trying to find this series for ages, I had them in my house as a kid, long before I could read and spent hours looking at the cover art. Remembered the pictures not the name

Harry Potter was about a boy who was a nobody. He was picked on and bullied every day. Out of the blue, he discovers that he has power, that he is special.

Leftists are indoctrinated to hate themselves and their culture. They were bullied and are nobodies. They cling to Harry Potter because they desperately want to be special and powerful.

>>138294722
Sorry, accidentally hit submit.

Anyway. I loved HP as a kid, but I eventually grew out of it as I got into other books and and media. I have a bro my age who still likes it, but he's not a leftyfag or anything.

>I can recall Baptist preachers warning of the whole phenomenon back when it began.

That was obviously because they were threatened by something other than Jesus being popular with kids. Especially something that involved magic and witches.

>>138283885
Intelligence community op
The bitch didnt write them
She sucks a mean cock though

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>>138283885
Daily Dose:
https://youtu.be/aG1Jd3PF-JU

>>138285977
that guys expression in the last panel always gets me

>>138283885
harry potter was just a clever way for ZOG to promote occultism to children, same with Yu-Gi-Oh. Me and my mom used to snuggle and read Harry Potter together back when my family was still intact, it's drenched in occult satanic bullshit.
>tfw the best moments of my childhood were ZOG psyops
JK Rowling will burn in hell for this shit

>>138294900
>what is the hero's journey

Where's the pasta

>>138291114
Read it. It's a classic in literature. It's out of copyright, grab a copy here.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/289

>>138295262
Yeah, but his point was that HP's Hero's Journey appealed even more heavily to the loser participation trophy generation of millennials.

>>138286968
did those kids go on to read more serious literature or just popculture garbage like harry potter?

Where's that post about Harry Potter teaching kids to love Stephen King?

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>>138288515
Holy fuck I haven't thought about the Deltora books in YEARS. Fuck I'll have to pick em up

>>138295493
>did those kids go on to read more serious literature or just popculture garbage like harry potter?

I did. But then, I'm here and not a stupid leftist cuck comparing Blonald Grumpf to Voldermort.

>>138283885
i love both harry potter and fascism ama

>>138294900
This post. It's about wanting to be special by waving a magic wand and having power.
On the opposite end LOTR is a story about how difficult it is to conquer evil, both within and against others. Power corrupts and it is a challenge to overcome that corruption and be willing to give up power.

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>>138283885
>>138286384
>>138293070

>hero protagonist slandered and isolated from society by ruthless mainstream media monopoly
>hermione forced to take the blackpill on house elf slavery
>miscegenation between wizards and muggles on aggregate dilutes magical inheritance
>the banks are run by greedy hook-nosed goblins
Harry Potter is based af and JK Rowling is definitely /ourgirl/

protip: Lucius Malfoy did nothing wrong. Mudbloods were vermin and should have been exterminated.

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>>138289775
You need to read the Wheel of Time series. Fuck, everyone in this thread needs to read WoT.

>>138286384

Quick Rundown for why that universe is the way it is
>wizard vs muggle war
>wizards lose because guns n sheit are more practical at killing then magic.
>wizard govt ultimately cucked by muggle govt.
>muggle govt forces Hogwarts to accept mudbloods to protect society from exposure to magic
>foreign schools only accept purebloods

There was literally a point in the books where the magical prime minister had to ask permission to do some magic shit from the muggle state.

wew.

>>138285077
I hated harry potter as a kid. I dont know why I just couldn't read through it. Something in my brain was telling me no.

20 years later all the people who liked harry potter growing up are die hard leftists and those who dont are mostly right wing.

>>138295931
the first WoT book is a good standalone, but still really dorky. the rest are completely unnecessary

>>138283885
http://mileswmathis.com/potter.pdfhttp://mileswmathis.com/potter.pdf

JK Rowling is a british intelligence agent

>>138296396
http://mileswmathis.com/potter.pdf

>>138295633
I used my neice's interest in Harry Potter and reading to get her into other books - Wind In the Willows, Phantom Tollbooth, the Oz books, The Hobbit, The Rats Of Nimh, Rauld Dahl's books, and I'm going back and forth about getting her a couple Heinlein juveniles, because I don't want her jumping into his adult stuff yet, she's only 13, and his incest shit doesnt sit well with me.

I always was a fan of Harry Potter. Read all the books when I was a kid.
Never was huge into it like some of the turbo nerds out there, but I understood its merits.

But now, like with most other things, /pol/ has ruined it for me.
When I re-watched one of the movies, all I saW was
>Voldemort is supposed to be a Hitler metaphor
>all the blonde Aryan people are the bad guys
>the hero girl is literally a mixed race "mudblood"

Stop killing shit for me, /pol/.

>>138283885
I've literally never consumed any form of Harry Potter.

>>138294856
The cartoon was butchered. Stories that took place generations apart were made into adventutres that the same group of children went through. But it was on PBS during preschool daytime scheduling.

Yea TICKELD. Yea that pissed me off. In on of the books I remember a rebellion on a pirate ship and the author talking about how the blood on the protagonist knife was darker than normal blood, because he just stabbed a guy right in the heart because he needed to kill him as fast as possible. No idea if heart blood is actaully darker. Then a squirell basically lashes herself to the sinking ship and holds the main villian in a death grip so hard they find her skeleton years later still choking that mother fucker.

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>>138289987
Underrated post.

Although to add, I will say that the real redpill is knowing Voldemort was right, yet simultaneously still wanting to be Harry.
If you can find the middle ground between the two, then you have reached true enlightenment my friend.

>>138283885
idk I myself am a casual reader of the series but I guess all the little snowflakes look (shallowly I might add) at the political climate and start drawing parallels in favor of course to how they view things. just my .02

>>138292154
>Hey look, I found someone gullible. Stop sniffing your own farts. Children don't care about your theater BS.

I'm not gonna' try to get all Jordan Peterson here, but it's a pretty well understood concept that archetypes are incredibly primal, and exist inherently within the fabric of civilization. It's why there are so many similarities between religions and mythologies throughout the world. It's a teaching method of values through parables.

>>138296656

>grindelwald is hitler, voldemort is Elliot Rodgers
>Ubermensch are ambitous and cunning, and side with evil when it is to their benefit
>mixed child only succeeds by being the most studious in the school's recent history

The book has so much redpilled subtext, the movies are made by jews.

>>138283885
I didn't notice much blatant shilling in the books or movies. I think it's just the fact that rejects are into it. Look at Harry Potter fans, MLP fans, and look at the left. There's got to be a correlation.

I also think LOTR fans are much more prone to being iron pilled. That series has absolutely no PC and conveys a relevant story to what's happening to our societies right now.

>>138283885

there's nothing occult about harry potter

it just happens that millenials are less religious so the stories of pop culture (harry potter, super heroes, star wars) fill a very necessary role in our moral development, a role that used to be played by the bible and folk tales in most of human history

jordan b. peterson talks about this, but it's hard to tell if pop culture has emerged to fill the gap left by religion or if the emergence of pop culture with mass media has driven that gap itself

the reason you see full grown millenials still referring to it is because pop culture is literally all they have, it's what their world view is built upon, a lot of people and I'd risk say even more prevalent among middle class americans simply lack meaningful real world experience and have to rely entirely on music/television/movies/books to experience moral dillemas, emotions, psychological states all through proxy

that isn't bad per se, for instance you don't want to go to war to try to understand how it works and how it feels, you'd be much better off just reading about it and being good at empathizing, but american society, mass media and pop culture also promote the infantilization of taste

it's not any secret that marketing and advertisement is heavily focused on young people, so you end up with a bunch of smug teens and young adults running around thinking they are the center of the world, except most will fail to look through the bullshit and end up with juvenile tastes and world views and struggle A LOT growing up because of it, if life itself doesn't completely break them like it's happening with sjw's

>>138297062
> That series has absolutely no PC and conveys a relevant story to what's happening to our societies right now.

It's also crazy that Tolkien named the Dwarves, and that shit wasn't even censored in the more recent Hobbit films.

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>>138283885
It's not what the nutter evangelicals say about witchcraft.

They're not remarkable books, but they are fun and engaging, and a lot of thought and care was obviously used. No idea why it's this book series in particular though, many series have those attributes.

The problem lies in how horribly inoffensive everything is. Morality in H.P IS black and white. It hits right in the middle of normiedom, it's absurd to normies to not like something so likable and black and white. It's a tale of good vs. evil and of course good prevails. It's the perfect normie story really

>>138296993


I should add, "to their benefit" is always defined as "maintaining the family legacy". The Malfoy creedo is to always be #2 in the current powerstructure, as those in the lead are inevitably deposed (thus besmirching the family legacy)

Literature has been trash since roughly 1920, when Jewish (((critics))) took over the industry and pushed modernism and made sure traditionalist stories got rejected.
Everything since has been Marxist garbage for the most part.

If the (((publishers))) even get the slightest of a whiff that you might have right wing views in your novel, they will throw it into the trash.

Modern science fiction is especially cancerous. The entire genre is just ridden with cucks and feminists. It hasn't been good in about 50 years, which is sad.

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>>138283885
I read the first 5 books half a dozen times as a kid, something about book 6 rubbed me the wrong way when it came out and it took me a while to realise i didn't like it. Book 7 was awful shit and I hated it. None of the films are good adaptations of the source material so I didn't like any of them.

I guess if I'd stayed on the Potter train when book 6 came out I'd be one of those faggots using voldemort analogies right now. Terrifying thought.

>>138283885
>education as magic: harry potter and the culture of narcissism

http://www.culturewars.com/2002/potter.html

long but worth it

>>138283885
I read all the books and watched all the movies, even had some of the toys and games.

I still turned out conservative, because I'm not so socially inept and broken that I need to relate everything to a fantasy character for it to connect with me.

>>138283885
Its an alt left book what do u expect

>>138285977
Mad eye moody the only based potter character, makes sense.

Glory to the Artificers.

>>138293151
>no argument
check
>crazy ad hominem
check
>ranting like a tinfoil hat wearing nigger
check

>>138287323
so LWA but worse?

>>138297482
Modernism was not necessarily bad. People like Ezra Pound who published Joyce in the U.S was a fierce anti-semite.

>>138297341
>It's also crazy that Tolkien named the Dwarves, and that shit wasn't even censored in the more recent Hobbit films.

Easier to portray them as wacky Scots.

>>138297845
Everything Joyce wrote after Portrait is the nonsensical ramblings of an insane syphilitic.

>>138283885
26 here,

I have never read any of the books. I tried reading Goblet of Fire, but I didn't make it past a few pages. I saw one of the movies on TV. Didn't care to see more.

>I'm wondering if they were on to something
They're not on to anything. Harry Potter is just competition to their own fairy tales, and they tell you not to see what it's about because they hate the free market since they know their own fairy tales can't compete.

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>>138296319
>unnecessary
Wew laddie
Each book is like it's own awesome standalone that follows the same basic story arch. And then they all culminate in the final volume. We're we reading the same books?

>>138283885
Watched all the movies.
But in the end, I grew up and now I don't care about Harry Potter anymore.

>>138296734
I remeber the pirate lord who punished a guy no one liked by drowning him in barrel of wine that he sealeed him in. I think he said something like "I HOPE YOU CAN DRINK REALLY FAST HAHAHAHA"

Also characters would get boiled and skinned alive and stuff. The "best" part was how causually they would mention past gruesome deaths like "Yeah, remember the time our boss Evilclawbloodyfbadfangs skinned that guy alive and threw salt on him while he made his family watch?"
"Yeah man! and then he skinned his family after they had been enslaved... good times!"

The pasts I remember the most were when the main characters were in cave in slowly loosing air as they tried to escape. I swear I felt like I was suffocating reading that. One of the characters eventually sees Martin the Warrior in a vision after passing out due to lack of air and briefly gains supernatural strength to escape.

Redwall books have actually been removed from a bunch of middle school libraries because "the themes are not child appropriate."

It made a whole generation retard is what

>>138287323
>It is nothing like lotr. Potter is about high school magic anime. Lotr is an epic about the deeds of heroes and nations.
LOTR is also the side project of a brilliant scholar who spent decades crafting a mythical world. You can read his letters and get a sense of the man, his love and devotion to his homeland, his respect for other races, his fear that any one of them could be corrupted, and his hope in God and the eucatastrophe. Does anyone believe we'll ever see that kind of substance from J. K. Rowling? Will anyone be reading her collected tweets in 50 years?

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>>138283885

OP I believe the reason Harry Potter fans tend to always be far-blue is not down to having read the books etc. but because the personality types that enjoy fantastical feel good books about being special tend to also be most strongly attracted to group-think popular narrative politics.


So think:
Particular personality type --> Enjoys HP (child manifestation) + bluepilled (young adult manifestation).

rather than

Reads HP --> bluepilled.

>>138287323
>Potter is about high school magic anime
>no loli love
>no harem
>no lewd spells
Fuck off with your anime knowledge

>>138292485
>>138292707
She wrote the books when she was fucking psycho and probably jacked up with meds. She's wealthy now and probably sober, so now she can't write like she used to.

>Dumbledore
>School called "Hogwarts"
>Hufflepuff

These are not the fictional names that sane people make up.

>>138298605
Those just sound like average British street names though.

Surprised there wasn't a House Trigglywiggly.

>>138298605
>She's wealthy now and probably sober
No anon she's pretty insane right now with Trump in office.

>>138298787
>Surprised there wasn't a House Trigglywiggly.
we don't talk about House Tigglywiggley here unless you want to get fingered by Freddy.

>>138298339
>Will anyone be reading her collected tweets in 50 years?
If they bother, they'll skim through a few and see she held completely lame popular opinion views, and offered nothing novel to the collective conversation.

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>>138298548
>Have a distinct memory from middle school about a bunch of pseudotards comparing book sizes like they were dicks
>One faggot pulls out The Goblet of Fire with a smug look on his face
>I interject by pulling out Battlefield Earth

>>138298548
>no loli love

Harry falls in love with Ron's sister....

>no harem
He has multiple chicks after his dick.

>no lewd spells
A girl tried to date rape him with love potion laced chocolates.

>>138298799
I mean she's acting like any other bleeding heart liberal that believes we just elected Hitler, so she's gone from a few days from the asylum to a mainstream liberal

>>138285596
OP is asking: WHY is there that correlation? Is it because people who like to read tend to be more educated, and end up being leftists? If so, what does that say about the far-right and the education level of the majority of us?

>>138299105
I didn't mean to quote.

>>138297203
The hue is correct

>>138283885
while you goys are discussing harry potter nasa is putting balloons filled with bacteria, into the stratosphere eclipse day, are you fuckin ready mates
http://www.abc2news.com/newsy/nasa-is-sending-bacteria-into-the-sky-during-the-total-solar-eclipse

>>138283885
I never got it. All my friends were raving about it when it first came out so I bought a copy and threw it away after the 4th chapter.

>>138283885
I read it, stopped at the 4th book and didn't give a shit. It's cringe worthy, all of these supposed adults still giving a shit about it and using it in politics. Grow up already.

Apparently my mom bought the first few books for me and I didn't like them. But I don't remember that. I saw the first 4 movies and then read all of the books when book 6 came out. I wasn't really obsessed with it, but I will admit that I tried my damndest to read book 7 in one sitting, which was probably the longest book I've tried to read in a single sitting. I didn't think of it any higher than I did aSoUE, and shit, I can't even remember how that ended.

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>>138299105
topkek
I had a LOTR one volume book that I pulled out.
...and they also were holding Goblet of Fire, of course.
They just kind of frowned and walked away. That describes most of my social interactions before 10th grade though.

>>138299262
>but don't worry, it's all for science
sounds like a wormy way to say "and that's a good thing"... also why the fuck aren't they specifying the type of bacteria? is it a mostly innocuous lactobacillus or something dangerous?

>>138299123
>Harry falls in love with Ron's sister....
Expect Ron's sister becomes legal age towards the freaking end so no loli.
>>138299123
>A girl tried to date rape him with love potion laced chocolates.
But that's the classic fantasy trope of a love potion, anon.

>>138299127
Fuck mainstream liberals

>>138299105
>>138299539
The ironic thing is that the Harry Potter books are about the average word count of most novels, but they spaced them out to absurd page lengths by putting almost no writing on a page.
Each page has about half the average words of a normal novel, so essentially if a Harry Potter book is 700 pages, you can cut its length in half and it would be a 350 page normal book.

>>138298206
Yea I remember reading them as a kid and being like "holy shit this is pretty dark", but young boys seek out a little violence and can tell even at that age that violence is getting censored. It captivated me as a kid I think because I felt the author trusted kids to handle some darkness and death, which isn't something you often find. I remember getting my friend into it when he thought it was more kiddie do to being about mouse people.

There is no way there will ever be a film adaptation without a heavy SJW over haul. It would have some token vermin mary sue to show #NotAllVermin and Vermin being violent would be blamed on Goodly Folk. Check you mouse privledge! Would make a great kids CGI film, but a teaser trailer alone would cause hordes of "10 Reasons Why Redwall is a Tale Supporting Xenophobia". #VerminAreWelcomeHere.

Pretty string themes of protecting your homeland from foreign invaders from a forgien culture.

>>138299724
>But that's the classic fantasy trope of a love potion, anon.

It's still lewd.

>>138299813
Only lewd if she shows a little skin, anon.

>>138283885
No. Harry Potter and Star Wars are only ever referenced by leftist because
>It's "entry" level geek shit that makes them feel smart
>It's easy to plug yourself as Harry/Jedi while plugging people you don't like Voldemort/DarthVader. Essentially just saying "literally hitler"
>It's popular so people know about it

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>>138299794
That's what made it funnier, Harry Pottards swung around their page count all the time, because it made them feel smart that they could read a book that big. Which is funny, because there are visual novels that can smash the combined wordcount of all the HP novels.

>>138283885
my kids have never once watched the movies. you couldn't force them to. they really don't watch much other than youtube. Harry Potter is millenial shit. Gen Z kids really don't like things that faggy and weak

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>>138283885
>yfw you realize there are people who read every Harry Potter book cover to cover, but never so much as picked up an Animorphs book

Eragon was reccomened very highly to me as a kid and I found it to basically be Jeremey Thatcher Dragon Hatcher, but with a really fucking slow plot.

Wooo holy shit, the main character gets a scar on his back and cries about it. Fucking boring as shit book.

>>138284300
We should meme that Rowling is anti diversity

>>138286688
>digits
>autism
You're in the right place friendo.

>>138300402
I know that the stoyline gets pretty dark, but I could never get past those goofy ass covers. As I kid I always figured that they'd be like reading ZooBooks. Nothing about the covers even hint at inter dimensional genocide timelines.

>>138299800
My youngest sister is still in Middle School and she asked for Redwall books at the school library. Apparently they removed them from all schools in the district since I attended for having "inappropriate and unacceptable themes for children". We looked back and it was on the list of books that our school district and several others were removing. Some of the books removed were because of sex scenes and stuff, but apparently Redwall was in the list.
The librarian recommended she read Harry Potter or Secret of Nymph instead, kek.
I have 2/3 of them already which my sister can read. They originally belonged to my oldest sister and and I added more.
Now I'm nostalgic for the days I would check those out of the school library and me and my older sister would take turns reading it out-loud to our younger siblings and then we would act parts out. Especially the violent parts.
Nothing will make a five year old laugh quite as much.
We really did enjoy those books.
...and now I'm in culinary school. Hmm.

>>138300710
and emma watson in alt-right

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>>138283885
Reminder that the only /pol/ approved modern fantasy book are The Lord Of Th Rings trilogy.

>>138300985
There's definitely some worth skipping, and it's nothing compared to some of the better sci-fi of the last few decades, but for young adults it's pretty good. Highly recommended for middleschoolers, I gave my whole collection to my niece a couple years ago.

>>138300673
But Aryaaaaa
She's ssooooo beuatiful! But she's an elf! a beautiful elf, but alas I am human but I am a dragronborn-jedi thing so maybe...
AAAAUUUUUCH my back!!!! NOOO
And I just learned my father is evil (NOOOOOOOOOO) and my angsty friend Mortague is my brother all along.
I AM SO MISRABLE MY BAK HURTS AND ANGST AND I LOOOOOOVE Araya the heavenly atheist

I really liked the first book because I read it when I was 12, but I wasn't able to get the second book until I was 14 or so and by that point I was like "wtf is this crap"

The first book is alright though. I would consider it a better wattpad story, back before wattpad was purely One Direction and Harry Potter fanfic and borderline (or outright) Vampire bondage porn or whatever. Wattpad actually was a lot better at one point.
The author of Eragon was 14 so I guess it makes some sense.

Also, if you want to have fun post pictures of a stack of Eragon books and post to /lit/
/lit/ loves Eragon.

>>138301030
That fucking sucks. I first found them in the school library. They had basically all of them. Whats funny is, as a kid you don't pick up those themes, it's just a story about mouse people. As a kind I was very anti racist and what I thought was liberal. But imagine never growing up witha story that is simply, "we have to defend our home". Some adult read the books and said "theres no diversity in this boom about mouse people! Were is the strong black lesbian Islamic Weasel!"

That's all Redwall series mostly is. People that never wanted to fight basically being pushed to the edge and forced to fight just to keep there homes. Just talking about these books makes me realize how different the times are. These would never be published now. They are to nationalistic and patriotic.

>he didn't buy the books the day they were released
>he didn't watch the movies in theaters when they all originally came out

Honestly wasn't that obsessed but I did like it at some point. 28 y/o here btw.

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>>138283885

28 year old anon here too. I know EXACTLY what you're talking about.

The problem with Harry Potter, and almost all magical/ fantasy titles in the genre is this:

> sacrifice is the burden of others, and not the hero.

Think about it. Granted Harry Potter was written for kids back in the day, but Potter faces almost ZERO sacrifice until the end of the series. Until the Deathly Hollows, Potter faces conflict that isn't entirely morbid or life ending, and ALWAYS comes out on top as the hero, unphased and ALWAYS unequiped to face the next "boss" without some divine intervention.

>Now why are youth who are attracted to military titles in science fiction and fantasy almost always redpilled?

Because unlike Harry Potter, sacrifice is not the burden of others, but of the hero. Divine intervention is rare, conflict and struggle IS morbid and life (or species) ending.

Sound familiar? Lefties always place the sacrifice on others, or victory to whatever cause at the expense of others, where as us on the right take that burden upon ourselves. The Left values Lenin and Stalin, who put victory at the expense of others deaths, whereas nationalists put victory in the basket that entails us all taking the burden on ourselves.

>>138302042
There's diversity in Animal Farm, maybe they'd appreciate that more.

>>138302014
Oh god, is Eragon a meme there? My step brother had every book and I trusted his taste because he got me to read lotr.

I was like how the fuck can I go from lotr to this "boy gets a secret magic pet #3456"

I think I slogged through it for my step bro. But the first half is basically EXACTLY down to a fucking "t" Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher, a book which I had just read and basically has the same over all arc in like half the pages.

I maybe would've liked it as a kid, but it just didn't hit me at the right time.

>>138288884
Holy fuck are you literally me?

>>138288884
>>138302708
Underage b&

>>138302273

> sacrifice is the burden of others, and not the hero.

god dammit this is it

I remember reading this series in high school. the first book was mostly cool with some weird bondage parts, then later on there was a cuck subplot and one of the books was literally atlas shrugged.

>>138285500
>O'Doyle Rulez!

i dont think it's anything inherent to the harry potter series (just that it's popular, so all normies are familiar with it)... i think if LOTR was written and published today, people would be comparing trump to sauron instead of voldemort

>>138302504
>when your ideology is so fragile, you have to ban a book about farm animals that is written at a level comprehensible to 5th graders and even 5th graders can see why communism is shit

>>138283885
I read the first 5 or 6 books and enjoyed them, but after it changed from being random fun wizard shit to dark nigger lord voldemort killing everyone I kinda just lost interest. As for the topic of the thread I have no idea why it's so popular with the left.

>>138283885
They became popular because they are well-written. That's all there is to it. The plot itself is stupid, the whole wizard blood reflects a terrible understanding of genetics, but none of that matters because the text is interesting. Go read the first page on Amazon. There's a ton of personality and intrigue that no other author has emulated.

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>>138302273
THIS

>>138283885
Rumor has it they weren't actually written by Rowling, which is why she has to pay lip service to the left no matter how extreme it gets. She made billions off a social conditioning project written by a committee of leftist subversives to brainwash a generation.

Rowling doesn't believe in an afterlife. She doesn't realize that she will literally burn in unendurable anguish for all eternity.

>>138283885
I stopped reading when Snape kills Dumbledore became a meme.

Thanks assholes.

It's all childrens books anyway. Doesn't fucking matter today.

>>138303514

See my post above.

>>138283885
>The people who are hardcore fans of the series are almost always bluepilled normies who voted for Sanders/Clinton/Obama.
Yeah, they learned to read with these long books so if they finished them all, they likely had a larger vocabulary. This helps you learn more about the world because you know what more words mean.

>>138303341
Half the senior English classes at my high school got to read Animal Farm. I guarantee that book is no longer on site.

>>138302273
Fuck me you're right.

In Redwall in a later book, they find out the ledgdary hero of old basically died after getting unlucky while adventuring and captured by pirates and making the best of it by killing the shit out of every last pirate before the ship sank with everyone aboard, like 5 main protagonists included. I think the pirates had a plan to go fuck up some innocent coastline villages or something so instead of escaping and going home the heroes decide "lets just end these fuckers today is a good day to die"

This is a boom about squirell people.

>>138302273
You hit exactly on why I disliked Harry Potter so much as a kid, and I hadn't really given it thought or understood it until now.
I was really exited to read HP when I first picked up the book, and it sounded like it was going to be a super fun book to read.
But when I read it I had to force my way through all seven books and I didn't enjoy it. I read it primarily to make conversation with other people my age, plus I had a book report on the first one.

Something about the way Harry acted always gave me a bad feeling. He rarely tried to better himself at all and everything he did was moved by those around him, yet the text clearly suggests that he is amazing and moral and just by being his good self (who does pretty much nothing outside the winds of fate).

I also disliked the worldbuilding in general. I would have people rave to me about "the world Rowling creates is just so unbelievably alive and real YOU HAVE TO READ IT", but I just found it kind of ok and not that special.
I was always really bored reading it. At times, I force motivated myself by only letting myself read two chapters of another book if I read one chaptter of Harry Potter first. I was probably 5th grade.

IIRC I was bribing myself with chapters of Robin McKinley novels. The Hero and The Crown and The Blue Sword specifically. They were kind of YA novels with girl main characters but they were really good. I can never find anyone else who has ever heard of them.

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>>138303554
>There's a ton of personality and intrigue that no other author has emulated.

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>>138283885

I read malazan book of he fallen because im not a faggot or retard

>>138286812
>led by stronk wymyn
>its a disaster
>euron rape fucked the most feminist ones including his niece
>you think there's gonna be a "muh stronk wymyn" ending
You haven't been paying attention, GRRM is a fuck and would probably go that way as you describe but D&D seem content to keep the story on track and are clearly showing how the "muh wymyn" is fraught with pitfalls this season

>>138303858

I've never read that book, so I'll have to look into it.

On a side note, I'm currently watching The Fifth Element for the 2000th time. Wanna know one reason the US is fucked? This film lost to Titanic for the Academy Awards back in 1998.

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>>138285977
Do these people lack any self actualization to realize how utterly retarded they appear?

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>>138283885

I read that shit, not very good. If you're into pop book series A Song of Ice and Fire is much better.

>>138304153
There are no "Gladiator" films for these generations. My dad took me to Gladiator and I basically went in a boy and came out with the understanding of the type of man I should aspire to be.

No male role models, just bumbling fuck wits who need a stronk wymn to show them how to be not retarded.

Also 5th element was fun.

>>138303878

If you sit back and think about it, Harry Potter was a moldable character. He had almost no defining traits other than that fucking scar. He ALWAYS followed the will of others or took the mantle that others or circumstances forced upon him. Nothing was voluntary. So yeah, you probably got the feeling that he was moral because he existed at the whims of others. Sound familiar?

As for me, I read the books because I was young, bored, and figured whatever book caused me to be punched in the face anf bullied in middle school was something worth reading....I went to probably the worst public middle school in my state that wasn't a disciplinary school.

>>138284236
Same.

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>>138287685

>jews

sorry anon, you should know that the illuminati are actually anglos.

>>138304575

For me, it was Saving Private Ryan ad a kid. If I had any doubts about enlisting when I was a child, 9/11 cleared them when I watched it all unfold in my 7th grade classroom.

> 5th element was fun
Definitely in the top 100 list of movies to see since 1975.

>>138303878
This is interesting. Never read these books but almost feel that I should since they're such a cultural phenomenon.
Are the movies worth watching to get an idea of it? I have too many books to read as is.

>>138304647
HP is a moldable character. That's why it was so loved. People wanted to put themselves in HP's shoes.

Take a story with a strong main character with hard values and you will not find the same mass following. HP was a lazily written teen-story that got lucky.

>>138304908
Same. except I watched both private ryan and gladiator.

>>138305167
The movies are trash. Honestly the first two books are pretty enjoyable it you just filter out all the shit you see on /pol/ about harry potter fans and their autism. Pretty short reads too since the language used is for kids. Can finish a book in a day if you enjoy what you're reading.

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>>138305167
Never seen the movies.
My dad watched a part of one and said that he would rather watch a full length Dora the Explorer movie.

...I don't know what to make of that either.

Time to leave /pol/ if people here seriously think of this as a "jewish subversive plot".

It's just a kids book which has a plethora of common kid personalities (nerd, normie, all knowing, fat, weirdo, bully and so on) with a simple plot where they all succeed in a way or another. Wonder why a book series like that was and possibly still is popular.

>>138304153
>>138304153
I don't remember what the title of that book is but basically an investigative party goes out to find out what exactly became of the old hero, because he isn't buried in the castle he founded. Half the story is in the past.

You expect to find out he died secretly retired in some comfy hillside away from all the bloodshed of his life. But it's a harsh pill because while on some unrelated task (my memory is foggy here, but I think he was trying to basically retire or something and train a successor), he gets caught up with pirates and dies bleeding to death on a boat full of stank ass pirates helping his new friend "vengeance forged squirrel woman" drag one last batch of stank ass vermin into a watery grave.

>>138305621
Goodbye

>>138304908
Why arbitrarily cut it off at 1975? What do you think is the top 5 movies?

Harry Potter for PS2 likely broke the record for load screens.
Every fucking door was a load screen.
Hated Harry Potter after that for making me waste 1/2 of my play time on load screens.

>>138283885

>always been into sci-fi, computers, fantasy, etc.
>at the movies the weekend the first harry potter movie opens. i don't know anything about this shit, but there are a bunch of people in their mid 20's and older dressed in costumes with magic wands

>who the fuck are these losers and where did they come from?

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Anti gun Marxist jk rowling did not write Harry Potter

>>138305665
grrr
It's all so familiar and I can picture it happening, but I can't remember any names or anything.

>>138302014
>/lit/ loves Eragon
/lit/ loves to shill for Illiad

>>138306346

Wait, you mean the video game based on a movie based on a book wasn't good?

Did you try the lego version as well?

>>138302014

Yeah, kid me loved the first book, so much promise and an actually interesting magic system.

Then comes magic gems and elf powers bringing the power creep to insane heights before turning into naruto fan fic.

I wish for an "Eragon's Shadow" told from Roran's perspective.

>>138288230

Goodshit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbUe_Jiyk7Q

>>138306403
I think the cover art has a boat wedged into a canyan or something

>>138307064
https://youtu.be/bKE4fV4ZKKY

>>138288230

Wow, I used to read this in primary school. I loved this series, especially how it was multi generational and you would read sotries about characters ancestors and how Redwall abbey prevailed in the future and defended against invading forces.

Was awesome. Also, it featured an otter who duel wielded scimitars.

>>138305341

I disagree. I think most people remember Harry Potter for every other character, except the title character. As for defined, strong characters, there are epics still read today that were written thousands of years ago. Outside of kids books, most characters in a series are not moldable. They are defined by previous circumstances or choices the reader had no control over, in addition to choices they make as the reader progresses through the story that make the reader feel that they are along for the ride.

>>138305665

I'm not familiar with that story, but another anon above said it was a Reddall story.

>>138292589
Snaps pls go