Twilight v Harry Potter WAS: Re: Torrents

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Hockeygrrrl17 at ... wrote:
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>> One thing I have noticed that really annoys me and I see my 
students 
> doing this too is comparing Harry Potter to Twilight. I have read 
both 
> series ( Harry Potter so many times I can practically quote the 
books 
> word for word) , but in my mind there is no comparison. Forgive the 
> terms I use ( I got my degree in Mathematics and not English) , but 
> Harry Potter is so well written where Twilight is not. The whole 
Harry 
> Potter series is centered around the demented relationship between 
> Harry and Voldemort , and each book in the series has it's very 
> interesting sub plot that strenghtens the Harry-Voldemort scenario 
> where the Twilight series lacks the intensity and emotion that 
Harry 
> Potter has in abundance. I also think that the transitions between 
the 
> books in Twilight are poor and Breaking Dawn was a huge 
disappointment 
> ... especially the ending. I think the whole relationship between 
Bella 
> and Edward is boring , annoying and unrealistic. I know there is no 
> such thing as magic=2
> 0, but the way JKR wrote Harry Potter really makes a 
> hidden magical community seem plausible. The way she wrote the 
series 
> is exactly how I fantasized about magic as a kid. I would much 
rather 
> be a witch on my way to a magical education at Hogarts than an 
average 
> girl in a relationship with an immortal adonis. Anyone agree with 
me?
> 
> Kristin
>


Alla:

Oh LOL, Harry Potter v Twilight. Why do we need to compare them in 
the first place?

Ok, if we have to, I will say what I think again. I heard about 
Twilight books here for the first time, I am pretty sure, about how 
much better they were than Harry Potter.

I think that for all her mistakes and imperfections JKR's writing is 
significantly better than Meyer's. 

To me Twilight books are just romance, nothing more than that and 
well, even though I read a plenty of romance genre, I do it to give a 
rest to my brain and no, I do not think Meyer's books make your 
imagination work nearly as much as Harry Potter books are.

Having said it, for romance I liked the first book just fine, no I do 
not think it is good literature, but I think it was an entertaining 
story. I mean at the end of the first book I started hating main 
character and was really hesitant to read second and third. So I went 
ahead and read plot summaries, me is wierd, me likes spoilers :-)

Hm, from the plot summaries alone I run away from second and third 
books screaming :)

If I had read them, I would imagined I would have wanted dear Bella 
dead, and pronto. Why couldn't werevolves eat her if vampires love 
her so much? :)

But I am stupid, I had to read fourth book, I wanted to know how 
phenomena ends. Oh dear, yes I really really REALLY hated that one.

I watched the movie, I liked the movie better than the first book 
even, because I liked how they a little bit downplayed what I 
consider to be Bella's selfishness, obsessiveness and extreme Mary 
Sueshness. Did I mention that I consider her to be an ultimate Mary 
Sue?

I found Meyer's attempts to give her flaws to be well, rather 
laughable. She is clumsy? Oh PLEASE. And she IS beatiful and 
everybody else sees it and she is the most desirable in school. 
Right, she is full of flaws that one.

Having said it, to each their own indeed. Several of my best buddies 
here love these books, couple of my friends in RL, who are all 
extremely intelligent women love them too. They must have seen in the 
books something I do not see.

I remember reading the fourth book when it came out and wanting to 
rant about it for a week.

JMO,

Alla