Is Harry Potter popular in Georgia? What do you think about the new trailer and the upcoming series? Also, why do you think the story is so influential?
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Is Harry Potter popular in Georgia? What do you think about the new trailer and the upcoming series? Also, why do you think the story is so influential?
Posted by Clean_HeroM
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Yes it is popular and while I can’t talk for everyone, personally as a book fanatic (movies weren’t it for me, they left out so many important stuff bruh), I’m super excited as it’s evident they are sticking close to the source material as promised.
I’m 29 and I have a weird love hate relationship with Harry Potter. I grew up on it had the first two movies on VHS, my mom read me the first three books before sleep, then I picked them up myself. So yeah, it’s part of my brain at this point.
But the older I get, the more I see how messy it is. It really feels like Rowling didn’t fully plan where the story was going after the first book or two. Early on it’s more like self contained school mysteries, then suddenly you get massive lore dumps later. The Deathly Hallows being introduced basically at the end as this super important myth is the biggest example it just doesn’t feel earned.
Same with time travel. The whole Time-Turner thing is cool in one book, but it breaks the logic of the entire world if you think about it for more than 5 minutes, so it just quietly disappears later.
I still love the atmosphere, characters, and that whole growing up with the series feeling, but yeah… the structure is kinda all over the place.
Also funny side note: in early school I was literally called a satanist because of Harry Potter. Back then a lot of parents and teachers treated anything with magic like it was some kind of actual devil stuff. By 6th grade it expanded to Harry Potter, LOTR, and metal music so yeah, full package. You show up with a fantasy book or listen to heavy riffs and suddenly you’re corrupted.
Honestly hoping the new series fixes some of this seed the big ideas earlier, make the lore tighter, and may handle things like time travel in a way that doesn’t break the logic.
Yes it’s popular, some of ppls were also read books , some were watch movie tho , original movies of Harry Potter stories of course, but I don’t know how ppl will take that movie of Netflix. I think as for me will be interesting that to watch , how they done it and what’s characters are.
It’s very popular, both the books and the movies. Sadly when I was a kid my mom wouldn’t let me watch or read them because it contained “devil magic” so I basically have no connection to it other than some video games I used to play on my old PC. It’s been years since then and I think my mom realized how it was kinda stupid for forbidding Harry Potter just because of that, to which I always joke about it. 🤣
I wouldn’t call it “popular” or “favourite” but a random person in the streets would know about it.
30 this year and what can I say I grew up with it, my parents were obsessed with fairytales and fantasy books so we had bunch of them, we the children also inherited that love so I can’t help but love the books and movies since it’s such a huge part of my childhood, growing up you realize you don’t really relate to
Some of the themes or don’t really entertain the same ideas or thoughts the writer expresses but it still stays the part of you.
I have mixed feelings with the new adaptation it felt like it was still too early to make a new adaptation, I liked the casting of the kids, ngl Hermione looks very close to how I imagined her in my childhood when I used to read, I can’t say that about Snape tho.. since I’ve also had this convo somewhere else I’m gonna repeat here as well, I just don’t understand the reason behind such a drastic change for Snapes character, the books already have a sophisticated built in racial prejudice narrative, adding a real-world racial visual layer on top of that existing allegory doesn’t enrich it, it muddles two separate convos, in the books bullying had these motivations: his obsession with dark arts, his creepy obsession on lily, class resentment, him using slurs, general social awkwardness making him an easy target.. additional layer of diversity which is clearly VISUAL, makes his complex character fade and turn in other way, i hope they work around his character and environment so the narrative supports this change, maybe some of the marauders won’t be white? I’m not sure, or else it will be a lazy casting. I’m just gonna give it a shot tho just for the sake of memories