I don't care enough about the world to want to go further with it. I burnt out around Half-Blood Prince. The world just doesn't have that many appealing points. And Fantastic Beasts is, from what I hear, a prequel, so none of the issues it raises get fixed, or even considered important enough to carry over into the main series at all. And, frankly, I heard it wasn't that well received, though better than the eighth book, at least. The very fundamentals of how the world works is broken. It has been from the very beginning, and part of that is because of how the series was written. It started as a light hearted kid's novel that basically wholly ripped off entire sections of Matilda, even if the technical quality of the writing was better. But it found appeal with the elder teen demographic and wound up being rewritten more and more towards a serious route, despite the fact that the very fundamentals of the world set up in that first book just collapse when that happens. I'm about to go into a long rant about some of my biggest problems with the series, so if you aren't interested, just skip it. (SPOILER)The houses are nonsense. Every bad wizard ever has come from Slytherin, and apparently no good wizards ever. And not once has the idea of "jail or hang every student who gets sorted into that house" been suggested, even after a character as terribly written as "grr, I'm the literal definition of evil" as Voldemort comes out of there. Heck, there are students who still WANT to be Slytherin, even though they're basically saying "look at me, I'm evil". Which, even if they are evil, is the STUPIDEST thing they could do. All the main characters come from Gryffindor. Because it's the house of holy saints and deus ex machina students. Yet there are students who don't want to be in Gryffindor, despite the fact that you're basically guaranteed a place in the holy writ of the series. And every major character, regardless of the actual content of their character or personality, winds up in Gryffindor, because that's the special house of awesomeness. "Ambition" is supposedly the criteria for Slytherin, even though characters like Crabbe and Goyle, who are content to be second fiddle to the son of a man who is himself second fiddle to a greater evil wind up there. Because nothing says "ambitious" like being henchmen of a henchman's kid. Ron should have been a Slytherin. His entire story arc is about his ambition, and how he has middle child syndrome, constantly trying to live up to the examples of his older siblings, or his best friend who is literally the series' messiah. Hermione should have been a Ravenclaw. Her only defining feature through the entire first four books or so is her brains, and she's listed, mulitple times, as the school's smartest student, but she never winds up in the house for smart people. This would have actually improved the story in multiple ways, by creating some inter-house tensions and making the magic trio of fate actually have to overcome some tensions and prejudice to be friends but NOPE, that'd be too complex for people's minds. We'll just ignore the entire definitions of the houses to shove them all together. The entire wizarding world is built on the premise that they're all assholes. "Non wizards would always ask for magic solutions to their problems." Well no, trout. Wizards get magic solutions to THEIR problems, and have no problem with that. But they feel no obligation to help their fellow man, even though most of the effort required would be minimal at best. Heck, the wizards are perfectly okay using non-wizards when they need something that they're too lazy to do, but do muggles get any recompense for this? Nope! They have no rights, they aren't even people. And, of course, this is mirrored by the fan base, who dismissively mocked and ridiculed the "Muggles" who didn't praise the series as sacred when it was at the height of its popularity, even though they themselves would be seen as literally the scum of the Earth and little better than slaves by these people they idolize. The characters are for the most part one dimensional throughout most of the series, with many of them (like Voldemort) never getting any development or depth to their character. I just think that, overall, while the technical writing quality may be nice, the world building, story, and character development are crippled from the starting point she had, and it's overall a mediocre piece of writing that causes other, better works to be overlooked, and is defended by an overly hostile fanbase of people who treat it as far better than it is.
You should watch Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, honestly. Not only is one of the main characters a muggle, he's also the best character in the entire Harry Potter universe and the film itself deals with the problems of how the Wizarding community deals with secrecy and mistreating No-majs (muggles).
Both things change overtime but whatever floats your goat!
Sorry. I know a lot of people like Harry Potter, but I find a lot of problems with the series, and the treatment of Muggles by the entire wizarding community (including the good guys) is one of them. I also don't think the various houses are handled well.
It's a great song. I'm a huge fan of folk songs and ballads. I'm a bit disappointed that version leaves out the Fairy Queen and the tithe to Hell, since that's sort of critical to the entire tale of Tam Lin. But it's such a great tune and performance that I can't get too upset.
I liked it a lot
Did you enjoy the song?
High Pixie was the one I got. I suspected Cerberus, but it didn't look like Koromaru's Cerberus. I hope you enjoy the vid. Tam Lin is one of my favorite fairy tails, and that's a fantastic version of the ballad. I wanted to post a thread talking about it, but I figured it wouldn't be welcome.
That is actually Jack Frost. Kinda. It's Raiho, to be specific. In many SMT games there are special forms of Jack Frost unique to it, and in the Raidou Kuzunoha games, there's a Jack Frost that dresses the same as the main character. Since the pic is part of my idea for the Devil Summoner fanfic I'm writing, I figured he'd be a good fit The other demons are Cerberus, High Pixie and Gozuki Thanks for the video - I'll watch it later on when I have some more time!
