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⌈ Secret Post #7049 ⌋

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But I also expected the adults in the room to keep a firmer grip on reality. Instead, they allowed their children to confuse Joanne's writing with some grand work of genius. And then when those kids grew up, they held on to that delusion to make themselves feel better about their poor taste in reading as youths.

Odd. I've never met a single adult who pretended HP was genius writing, and it's weird that you think that having an interest in the series means the reader believes just that.

It just sounds like you HATE that anyone ever enjoyed the series and had good memories of it. Like, kudos to you for being a fucking Einstein, too cool and too smart for books aimed at stupid 10-year-olds. But why are you trying to invalidate people's experiences of the series? It's one thing to encourage people to read something else now and stop giving Rowling money and attention, that I understand. But telling people that their younger selves were wrong for enjoying a book series? You need to get a fucking grip.

I was gonna say, where is AYRT meeting all of these adults who think that HP is genius writing? Because I sure haven't run into more than one or two. Most of them readily admit that the writing wasn't amazing, but it was fun.

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Hell, if anything, the parents I remember making the biggest fuss about HP back in the day were the ones who were all, "THESE BOOKS PROMOTE WITCHCRAFT AND ANTI-CHRISTIAN VALUES THEY WILL CORRUPT OUR CHILDREN!" The parents that were chill about it weren't really making much noise one way or another.

Very much this! I never heard parents talking about HP other than the ones who were convinced it was going to lead children straight to the devil. Which was insane then and still is now. Floored me though how many did a "not in my house!" and forbid their kids from reading the books. Pretty sure that backfired on a lot of them, as know many who once they were forbidden from reading the books did so in secret to see what was so horrible about them.

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Exactly Which always tends to be the case when parents try and ban kids from watching/reading/listening to something - the more forbidden it is, the more curious the kids will be to seek it out.

Oh, I had to listen to way too many adults glaze the shit out of Joanne and Harry Potter back in the day, and as a bona fide hater of the bitch, my memories of that era are very clear. People were likening her to fucking Tolkien and King because she sold the most books eva! It still sickens me that she even got to sit on the same stage as some of the greatest writers alive.

And I don't hate the people who enjoyed Harry Potter, but I look down on them.

Always have, always will.

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