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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series (www.theverge.com)

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[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The world building is weak because Rowling is a bad fantasy writer, not because it was written for grade schoolers. There are tons of series aimed at grade schoolers with incredible world building - Redwall, Warrior Cats, Earthsea, just to name a few, all have way better world building than Harry Potter.

[–] ratsnake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 days ago

Eh, I think it's a bit of both? The first books just generally where fairly whimsy and light-hearted and you don't really need your demographics and societal structures to make sense when you are writing a whimsical, light-hearted story for kids.

The later books become darker and more serious so the artifacts of those earlier worldbuilding decisions become more and more obvious over time.

[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Earthsea has some of the best world building of all time, but I'm not sure I'd say it was written for grade schoolers.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I feel like Earthsea is appropriate for middle-school-aged kids (so like 11-14ish), right? Maybe our definitions of "grade schoolers" is different, but I was trying to give examples for a wide range of ages

[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Actually that's totally fair. There's just some heady concepts in there, it certainly makes HP look much more childish and goofy.