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[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was about to down vote you until I remembered the meme format. I commented elsewhere, but here's Shaun's video on harry potter

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I was afraid that it might not have been clear.

I relly liked them as a kid, but now I agree with Ursula K Le Guin:

I have no great opinion of it. When so many adult critics were carrying on about the ‘incredible originality’ of the first Harry Potter book, I read it to find out what the fuss was about, and remained somewhat puzzled; it seemed a lively kid’s fantasy crossed with a ‘school novel’, good fare for its age group, but stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited.

My nieces and nephews are currently getting into Harry Potter (their parents enable them) and I really hope that the nostalgia-hype is over, once my child is in that age.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Damn that's a very accurate critique, mind you I find few adults care about the ethics of the fiction they consume (and I don't mean that as purity testing, but like if you're going to show ethics make them reasonable or interesting