That was pretty apparent to me from the first chapter of the first book. I never got the hype and thought her writing was pretty bad, even by the YA standards of the time. Like, Piers Anthony farts out better YA fantasy on the toilet every morning, but Rowling writes some toddler-speak and everyone loses their fucking mind?
The more you read into the themes of Rowling’s work, the more you realize she just has very poor media literacy in general.
Voldemort could have easily been killed with a gun.
That was pretty apparent to me from the first chapter of the first book. I never got the hype and thought her writing was pretty bad, even by the YA standards of the time. Like, Piers Anthony farts out better YA fantasy on the toilet every morning, but Rowling writes some toddler-speak and everyone loses their fucking mind?
This is the problem.
When the author of the most widely read children’s books is media illiterate, how are we surprised that critical thinking skills are down?