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Eddie Redmayne softly reading the first paragraph of Harry Potter while low, magical orchestra plays in the background is the most beautiful, calming thing I have ever seen.
Ölülere acıma Harry, yaşayanlara acı, en çok da sevgisiz yaşayanlara.
Harry Potter ve ölüm yadigarları
J. K. Rowling
I’m hardly the first person to compare them but Terry Pratchett and J K Rowling really are polar opposites in terms of the way their writing treats weird characters. In Rowling’s writing, any weirdness is there to be laughed at (for example: Professor Trelawney, the fake seer who doesn’t know she’s an actual seer). In Pratchett’s writing, though, the characters’ weirdness is taken 100% seriously and the humor arises organically from the situation itself and is never at the characters’ expense (for example: in Making Money, the man who was born a clown and was never told so until he was 13 years old). In Rowling’s writing, the main characters poke constant fun at Professor Trelawney, making joke predictions and fudging homework and talking about how divination isn’t a legitimate field of study. Even after she gets fired and more or less drops the act, the joke changes to “look at this sad drunk lady” and the main characters express little sympathy. The narrative is saying she’s there to make one real prediction and otherwise she’s only there for comic relief. This sort of thing happens over and over in Rowling’s writing, where any quirkiness is there to be laughed at and the misfortunes of characters we’re not supposed to like are supposed to be funny, and it sends a message of conformity under threat of ridicule. In Pratchett’s writing, the clown man’s story is treated as a great tragedy: imagine growing up not knowing why you are the way you are, and then finding out the truth as a teenager! And knowing that your own mother kept the truth from you! This man was so deeply traumatized by this he denied himself any humor or fun for decades, and when he has a crisis and runs off to become a clown again, he is given support and medical treatment and is welcomed back to his job at the bank and accepted for who he is. The fact that this whole situation is hilarious is secondary. And again, this sort of thing happens over and over again in Pratchett’s writing, where characters’ quirkiness is embraced and often seen as irreplaceable by the end of the book, and it sends a message that our quirks are valuable and weirdness should be acceptable. It just strikes me as a much… kinder approach to people, you know?
Harry then did something that was both very brave and very stupid.
Harry’s entire life ever summarized into one nice phrase in Chapter 10 of SS (via maraurder)
not that I like j k rowling but it's funny that she wrote this book and was like "it has this thing in it with historic mythological precedence and it has a name used in said precedence" and someone else was like "ok, but ✨️alliteration✨️" and subsequently ruined the lives of several million americans
We cannot responsibly divorce the author from the story, but we can make it damn clear who owns it.
This is the truest thing evar!
There are 3 types of writers.
1. Writers that unrealistically don’t kill anyone.
2. The right amount of death.
3. LETS JUST FUCKIN KILL THEM ALL BANG BANG BANG
And I'll never forgive Rowling for killing Severus.
i will be forever grateful that of all the deaths in Harry Potter, Professor McGonagall was not one of them.