Harry Potter is Terrible

[Books & The Blurbing Book Club]

And here's a short list of reasons why:

First, the cast:

Harry has never done anything of any real consequence. Every time he gets into trouble he escapes in one of three ways: Blind dumb luck. Hermione does everything for him. Because Dumbledore said so. He is the most unlikeable main character I have ever met.

Dumbledore meet Deus Ex Machina. Deus Ex Machina meet Dumbledore. Now stop staring at yourself in the mirror, god damnit. Seriously, this guy is like Deus Ex Homo Hominis. God from the person. He solves every problem that normal Deus Ex Machina blind luck and stupid chance can't solve. It's ridiculous and just lazy writing.

Ron is a massive dork. There's nothing to like about him. He's nervous, stupid, and cowardly. His brothers were cool. He missed out on all that.

Hermione is a living breathing stereotype. "LOOKIT ME! I'M SMART AND I STUDY ALL THE TIME AND I HAVE NO SENSE OF FUN AND I ACT BETTER THAN EVERYONE ELSE BECAUSE I'M OBVIOUSLY MORE MATURE!" Well, hello, Miss Cliche.

Draco is the most unsympathetic villain of all time. There's no reason for him to act the way he does. He just does. It makes him nothing but a pointless and unimportant irritant. The books would have been no worse without him.

Voldemort... well, I take it back, Voldemort is less sympathetic than Draco. At least you can feel SOMETHING about Draco, even if it's just annoyance or loathing. Voldemort only shows up a few times, and hardly says or does anything. He completely lacks character beyond 'rar rar rar I'm evil and want to live forever and kill people because I can, rar rar rar.' It's ridiculous and played out. He has no real motivation for acting the way he did.

I could go on a bit further here, but let's move on to... THE PLOT:

First, I have to mention this: "Harry, you're still alive because TRUE LOVE SAVED YOU!"

Really there's nothing more I can say about that. It pretty much sums up everything all by itself. The pure aching cliche, the deus ex machina, the mary sueness. All of it. It just kind of encompasses the whole story to that degree from beginning to end, and there's no other single sentence that better sums up all my problems with Rowling's story telling.

P.S. Fuck Horcruxes. Let's just rip off the lich's phylactery, split it into seven pieces, and give it a name from a Doctor Seuss novel. It's not a new idea. It's not a good idea. And it's a terrible name.

[Kayla]

Your lack of proper grammar and punctuation is what caught my attention, not the actual post.

[TheUrgeToSneeze]

Harry and James are definite douchebags and I do not understand why they are so idolized.

Hermione had promise as an interesting character with complex traits to flesh out in later books but after book 3 her character pretty much nosedived into a whiny caricature.

Neville was the best character in the series. Obscenely underused. Frank and Alice should've been used way more than Lily and James.

[Euphemia Fenrir Lewis]

wow. I thought I'd get pissed. I still disagree, it was good, but you ARE right.

Harry- yeah... JK really should have let him dig himself out of the deep shit he got himself into, not let Dumbledore handle everything. but he wasn't completely whiny and thank goodness he's not over-the-top-i-know-the-solution-to-everything Edward Cullen.

Dumbledore- he was an intresting character to say the least but you're right. it kinda felt like he was the puppet master making everyone do his bidding.

Hermione-I'm glad that they put the cliche nerd-girl who studies as one of the heros. usually she's the one who sits in the shadows and only comes out when the main characters realize they're too dumb to handle a situation.

Ron-you're making fun of him because he's an awkward dork? dude, you're on NERDFIGHTERS.COM. if you know anything it's that dorks can be lovable and are made of awesome. but i DID like his brothers better :)

Draco- what a whiner. kill 'em. but he was raised to think that he's above everyone else, and being an only child he never learned to share attention. (no offense to only children)

Voldemort- if you look back he DID have reasons for being evil, and yeah it's kinda l;ame how he only showed up a couple times but think about it. If a bad guy could accomplish all his work sending out minions instead of risking his neck he would. if you're power mad you want as much power for as long as you can have it, and he fears death, so he's cowardly enough to not show up unless he has to.

plot- the "love" thing wasn't really the plot, but yeah I kinda wish they had dropped that. that was dumbledore's answer for freakin' everything.

horcruxes- what would you have named them? Susans?