Harry Potter: valid criticism or just humour?

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chocowrites

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Bwahahaha! Thank you so much for linking. I'm a huge HP fan and I think the article was a loving critique / spoof. Mostly because the authors of the article must've reread HP if they know where to insert Kenny into the books. But yeah, they definitely pointed out some stuff :)
 

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Yeah, pretty great.

I actually stopped reading HP at the 4th book for this reason: when it's a delightful children's adventure book, these kinds of holes don't bother me at all, but when I'm being asked to deal with all kinds of angst and death and social commentary and the holes pile up and become patterns, I'm out.
 

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OMG this is brilliant. "Six years of fighting this guy and we end up on a quest for seven arbitrary items? Did Voldermort play a lot of Japanese RPGs as a child?"

People at work are staring at me because I have tears running down my face.
 

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O.O

That was epic.
 

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Hilarious. And valid criticism--and evidence that good storytelling skills trump big goofy plotholes!
 

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Very funny, particularly the line about Japanese RPGs.

Now if you'll excuse me, I must return to playing Final Fantasy. ;)
 

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If you poke around the video section of the website, they have a fake trailer for a movie called Dueling Wands, where Hermione comes to America to teach in a much abused inner city school.

Absolutely cracked me up.
 

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Reminds me of the Twilight Parody book Night Light that I saw at the book store today. Both are hilarious.
 
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