Stunning and brave opinion. I unironically like Harry Potter

My mother was a massive bookworm and would order all of the HP books, but she was also a devout christian, and went to weekly Cell, in addition to church - and as the next wave of Satanic Panic went through the christian communities of Safrica, the next on the target for deviancy was Pokemon and HARRY POTTER

My mother would bribe me and my sister into not giving her away to her christian peers which made up much of her support group, fearful of rejection or informal excommunication

I remember being confused as to wtf the adults were talking about, because i never were able to find any anti-religious or christian themes. The books were largely apolitical.

In this context, i learned about the HP books, and their quality spoke for themselves, as well as them carving a then unused niche for young children coming of age.

But for me the repulsiveness about the International Harry Potter fandom was BECAUSE the fandom had outgrown the quality of the books, just as the sales numbers had far proportionally outgrown the degree of quality. And this isn't about being salty your favorite series was left in this dust

The problem cam that such snowballing success attracted the most normies motherlovers imaginable. On the surface level', having non extreme fanatics join your Gatekept fandom would be a good thing, to bring in new blood.

But it reminds me of how 10 years ago /r/polandball would actually ban you if you linked the sub, in other subreddits of more than 100 000, because the "default page crush" or normies storming into a small sub would destroy the culture of a subreddit overnight, never lurking to learn the ropes and rules and unique forum tier lingo of that small niche subculture.

In the pre-Marvel era, that HP fandom was the basic b-word of media - so many people didn't congregate into clubs because they liked reading, or because they enjoyed fantasy , or even because they deemed the Harry Potter books because they were fricking good by their own standards. They joined it because it was successful.

IT WAS LIKE THEY WERE FANS OF THE FANDOM, NOT OF THE BOOKS

This meant that no true conversation could be had with them, because their understanding of the books were as shallow as wet pavement. They never could come up with any talking moments about the series on their own - they just regurgitated talking points they saw in their shitty clubs, or copied reddit front page opinions

You see those freaks who cosplay (costumes of media characters) at nerd conventions, and something about it just always struck me as off, as inauthentic. So many star wars "fans" would during the Force Awakens, in throngs in their shitty Jedi outfits go to see the movie in theatres, standing lines, and jubulate HOW THIS WAS THE BEST DAYS IN THEIR LIFE even here in Safrica.

And while imbeciles in costumes told me Force Awakens was awesome - i was like wtf that was garbage.

Do these people actually like Star Wars, because they enjoyed the films, games or some of the books, or were they fans of the fandom,

Cuz these are the tards which devour Marvelslop, the Marvel movies have no quality, because its fans have no quality

!bookworms