>Most successful author of our age
>Always imitated, never equalled
>Almost single-handedly saved the act of "reading" from going extinct among the Millenial generation
How about /lit/ finally shows some love and respect for Ms. Rowling, hmmm?
>>8194897
Mate, if you have to shitpost at least do it in an interesting way.
with all due respect, she lost her place when she succumbed to the obsolescent replication (cancer) of capitalism. the "cursed child" indeed...
>tfw the sorting hat put me in Hufflepuff
Why even live
>>8194919
Smoke weed.
>>8194919
haha faggot nobody who is anybody is in hufflepuff
>>8194897
I fucking loved HP when I was younger. It was one of the series that got me into reading along with Tolkien's and Herbert's works. The last two books were trashy as hell. even by the fourth you could tell she lost her way but it was apparent by the last two that she was pulling shit out of her ass. I only finished the series for nostalgia's sake. It really isnt a big deal though, shell be remembered for HP instead of her incessant twitter pandering. and that's fine.
>>8194919
>phoenix feather wand
I got unicorn hair, motherfucker. Count yourself lucky, even if you're in hufflepuff.
>>8194919
>Bernie Sanders
>Ginny eating shemale He...
wew lad
>>8194919
>signed up for pottermore email list 6 years ago
>said I'd get an email when pottermore opened
>never got an email
screw you, JK Rowling
>>8195100
Did you check the spam filter?
>>8195095
Smells like new in here.
>>8194897
to this day, i am not sure whether i like Harry Potter because i was just a kid and it's a nostalgia thing, or is the book really high quality.
I read a copy of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." I suffered a great deal in the process. The writing was dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs." I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing.
>>8195366
How can one man..
>>8194897
>Millenial
When will people learn the actual meaning of this word? Because it's almost always the opposite of what they mean.
>>8194919
I've seen it a million times already, but I still chuckle when I see the "how to take a screenshot" tab.
>>8195316
It's not high quality. The world is interesting and the first few books are rather cozy, add them being unusual and a having high potential for escapism. Apart from that, writing is uninteresting, characters are bland and plot is as basic as it can get. Its general quality is on par with a fairly good (but not best) anime, and this is not a good recommendation for a book.
Its success somehow reminds me of MLP. Which is popular not because of its merits, but because it filled a certain niche, which was much larger than everyone thought.
>>8194919
>that empty feeling you felt when you were a kid and finished the last book
>>8194897
who gives a shit about children's literature?
>>8196695
Children?
>>8196666
Check'd
>tfw your mom is reading you and your brother the Goblet of Fire before bed
>she gets to the part where Cho Chang and Harry start to have adult feelings
>your mom keeps reading
>"Do you wanna go to the park and make out? Cho asked Harry"
>MOOOOOM
>Hahaha, just kidding Anon. Here's what it actually says."
>>8196722
>reading shit lit to your children
What an awful parent.
I want to cum in her used up pussy as I call her mummy
>>8194919
hufflepuff is the place to be
griffindick is full of literal "it's just a prank bro" asshats
ravencluk is an entire house of that one girl in your high school who literally didn't know what oral sex was and always had her panty line showing.
slytherin is the 1% posers who might as well be any ethnic-specific club.
i imagine the hufflepuff's entire hogwarts experience is just looking around at the other houses and being like "are we fucking insane or is everyone else on some kind of spectrum?"
>>8196728
indeed, I will make sure to always start with the greeks to the future children I sire
>>8194897
What's happening is part of a phenomenon I wrote about a couple of years ago when I was asked to comment on Rowling. I went to the Yale University bookstore and bought and read a copy of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." I suffered a great deal in the process. The writing was dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs." I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing.
But when I wrote that in a newspaper, I was denounced. I was told that children would now read only J.K. Rowling, and I was asked whether that wasn't, after all, better than reading nothing at all? If Rowling was what it took to make them pick up a book, wasn't that a good thing?
It is not. "Harry Potter" will not lead our children on to Kipling's "Just So Stories" or his "Jungle Book." It will not lead them to Thurber's "Thirteen Clocks" or Kenneth Grahame's "Wind in the Willows" or Lewis Carroll's "Alice."
Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.
Our society and our literature and our culture are being dumbed down, and the causes are very complex. I'm 73 years old. In a lifetime of teaching English, I've seen the study of literature debased. There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable.
>>8198105
nah, all the houses but rawenclaw are for plebs
>>8198149
ravenclaw is literally for nerds.
huffiepuff is the people you actually want to spend time with
>>8194897
>Almost single-handedly saved the act of "reading" from going extinct among the Millenial generation
not reading is better than 'reading' rowling
>>8198144
Are you a professor at Yale, good sir?
So let me get this straight
Gryffindor= House of the chads
Slytherin= house of the 1%
Rawenclaw=house of the Nerds
Hufflepuff= house of the normies(?)
So, were are all the autists at?
>>8198230
>So, were are all the autists at?
statistically insignificant group, they don't get a house
>>8196722
What a fvnny woman.
>>8198144
Were you a teacher at yale? I'm a student there now and I would love to talk.
>>8198230
>were are all the autists at?
>all harry potter readers
>>8194897
shitty bait
>>8196722
that's pretty cute.
>>8196722
For all that mail about reading her books to their children Rowlings received, she gave no fucks about filtering that shit.
>>8198748
part of growing up. Your parents read you the first 2-3 books and then you learn to read by yourself. That's how the series is built.
>>8198748
>implying shielding children from sex or sexuality is a good thing
wew lad
>>8198230
The basement
as a child, i never got into the harry potter craze. I didnt really liked her writing but at the time, i saw it as i didnt like reading i guess since everyone and their grandmas preached it like it was the book of revelations and the world was ending
>>8198754
kek
we're the sad pepe elves doing all the chores
>>8195048
So i did, but it has the worst final I've read. Nietzsche said that the bad literature is necessary for youngs, Rowling at least made the children start reading
>>8194897
Hermione is classic children heroine material for sure.
>>8194897
It did get me to read when I was younger, but trying to read it again as an adult is horrible, especially the later books.
>>8196666
>when you were a kid and finished the last book
underage b&
>>8198230
Autists become janitors
>>8200137just like here amirite
So, will she ever release an eight book?
>>8199425
It came out almost ten years ago.
>>8201739
>2007
Holy shit you're right
>>8201697
Well she wrote the play about Harrys son. Maybe that will become a book
any male who reads about a male witch is an utter faggot
>>8201868
oh yui, you're the second best k-on
>>8198144
Whenever someone responds to this pasta I can't tell if they are legit stupid, or they are involved in some kind of ironic shitposting.
>>8203406
She didn't even write it.
voldemort vs a gun. Who wins?
>>8203950
Rowling, because she has fifty thousand fans paying a premium subscription fee to Pottermore reading that shit.
>>8196695
everybody on this board is a child
>>8203409
>second best
the fuck you sayI'm not even trying to avatarfag; I just have a lot of Yui on this hard drive.
