[ SECRET POST #4036 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4036 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think that lack of consequences is quite the problem, because HP does at least try to show the consequences.

IMO it's more that YA fiction just generally doesn't display consequences well - the genre doesn't generally have the heft and technique to adequately depict stuff like that. And I've always thought with Harry Potter that the series is strongest in the earliest books, when it's a school story tinged with moral seriousness and heavy shit, and weakest in the later books, where the epic, serious, magical war stuff gets more play. (I mean, I love the whole series personally, but I can get why stuff like this is an issue)

[tree_and_leaf]

Yes, I think a lot of the weaknesses of HP are intrinsic to the conventions of the school story genre - or the weird things that happen when Rowling then tries to push beyond it. You get a sort of cognitive dissonance. (I love the books too).