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Remember: Even piracy doesn't offer absolution.

These properties rely on popular / universal awareness to achieve network effects and cement themselves within modern culture. When this happens, the memes and concepts from the property worm their way into everyday language ("he who cannot be named", "10 points for Gryffindor", etc) and help keep everyone else buying.

The only answer is to treat people talking about Harry Potter as you would someone who keeps talking about the greatness of R Kelly's music or Bill Cosby's comedy.

it’s literally just the same story again too, for the 3rd time

if you’re willing to throw trans people under the bus to watch a remake, you’re genuinely fucking pathetic at this point, like do something else with your life jfc

What if I pirate it, talk to no one about it (not by choice but still) and then destroy all memories of it through aggressive drug use?

I'd pirate it but I find the story just not interesting or worth my time.

I read Philosopher's Stone about 25 years ago as a teenager and wasn't impressed. Didn't read any other because that one already felt like wasted time. Went to a movie in 2007 (no clue which one that was) and again forgettable. Not bad, in fact I still remember Die Hard 4 that I also watched back then because it was so bad. That HP movie? No idea about plot or anything. Another one? Thanks, I'm good.

Even if Rowling wasn't a disgusting person, I feel like what I've seen of her work is just not great. It's not terrible, but I don't care for it at all.

But also, she can get fucked.

The only ethical consumption of the original Harry Potter Movies is to watch it with the gleefully unauthorized Wizard People Dear Reader soundtrack/overdub.

Anyway, we were at a bar and were getting a good laugh at a guy who was playing pool all by himself while wearing a hoody over his hat, sunglasses under that and headphones on the outside of all of it. So we started riffing on "What could he possibly be listening to?". Someone who I don't think was me said that he was listening to a book on tape of Harry Potter. And out came the Wizard People narrator. I joked that night that I was going to rush home and record an entire misinformed book on tape of The Sorcerer's Stone, because I had not and have not ever read any Harry Potter books. Once I started making notes for it I realized that an audio track alone could get boring, so I decided to sync it with the movie. Then I took a week or two and made the damn thing. I love it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizard_People,_Dear_Reader

https://archive.org/details/wizard-people/

I've always found Harry Potter universe to be quite campy. But I also never got into Lord of the Rings and thought Game of Thrones was awful so my opinion on television media may not be average or popular.

I'm so over HP. It was a popular book decades ago. I'm 41 (5 years older than the first HP actor) and I remember the "controversy" over the fourth book being so much longer than the others. I've read many other books since then that were better.

If you want grown up magic school stories check out The Magicians. One of the rare cases where the show is better than the books.

Wait a minute, I always fucking hated Harry Potter!

I prefer Michael Rosen's poetry. Seriously!

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Edit, I realize IDGAF.

Imagine being an adult and still caring about Harry Potter.

Read some books written for adults.

just like with star trek and Paramount, you cant be ethical and support ellison, just because star trek is on it too and its a"progressive show", and besides the 3 nutrek shows now cancelled seems to lean more of authortarian nature instead of a progressive one like old trek.