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[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 73 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I WAS that Harry Potter fan. The overly obsessed nerd who was waaaaaay to into it. But now I'm over it because fuck Rowling.

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I don’t even plan to pirate the hp tv show. Fuck Jk Rowling so fucking hard. Fuck the piece of shit. Ugh

[–] elvith@feddit.org 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I was a huge fan back then and nowadays I'm like " This thread is how I learn, that there's a new show announced?" - shows how much I care about that franchise today, lol.

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 6 points 1 day ago

Yup. I was a DIE HARD fan of hairy pothead until rowling showed her true colours. Now I won't even watch HP or read the books, even if they're pirated. She's a bigoted POS and she can rot in hell.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

I'm in the exact same boat. I don't want her to even get THOSE numbers. Like how HBO bragged about got piracy numbers

[–] socsa@piefed.social 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The entire franchise is just so fucking mid, I don't understand why people worship it so much. The invented language in particular is cringe as fuck and sounds like shit a child would come up with.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Yeah see this is my whole main problem.

The writing and story are just... ok?

I could identify the racist tropes and body shaming just interwoven into the whole series before I hit puberty.

Oh then of course slavery is good sometimes actually, here I invented a scenario where this is true.

I got bored of Harry Potter, and just reread Animorphs.

Which certainly has problematic characters and moments and events... but ... they are bad things, that the characters have to actually deal with, its a much more complex and engaging story overall, imo, though of course the serial format means that some books are not so great in comparison to others.

Kinda the same thing with Redwall.