I just finished The Sorcerer's Stone for the first time. I absolutely adore the world-building and characters. I couldn't care less about the plot 'cos I was just enjoying the atmosphere. The centaurs were a step too much, though. Is Chamber of Secrets any good?

Now you are finally ready

>>24578947 (OP)
What was wrong with the centaurs? The 2nd and third book are pretty similar to the first one.

>>24578965
They're too silly, talking hat aside.

>>24578985
They're just like a tribe of stone age magicians, they hardly seem like the silliest thing in the book

>>24578947 (OP)
Chamber of Secrets is probably the only Harry Potter book I actually admire. A lot of the later books don't have the comfy atmosphere but Chamber of Secrets has both the atmosphere of Sorcerer's Stone and a kind of high stakes higher than Goosebumps spookiness

>>24578947 (OP)
To be brutally honest, if you're just checking out and reading the HP books for fun, which is what it sounds like, thats totally fine, I think theyre trash but whatever
The decline in quality after book 3 is stunning, even as a kid I was blown away by how drawn out and flat everything got with Goblet of Fire, it was so bad I pretty much gave up on the franchise until I was in my 20s and went back to read the last 3 just for shits and giggles
Drink every time you read the word gormless

>>24578947 (OP)
Grow up

>>24578947 (OP)
The sex scenes are extremely over rated. I mean Snape having flash backs to getting molested by dumbledore fine. But Hermione have to "enchant" the three headed dog? No completely took my out of it. Btw Prisoner of Azkebahn is fine. Goblet of fire is fine. Order of the phoenix is okay. Half blood prince I found unfinishable. Look she's fucking overrated.

>>24579094
>Hermione have to "enchant" the three headed dog

you just know

Our teacher read this to us when it was new when I was in middle school. It was fine, just seemed like another book to me at the time. Then a few years later is was a fad. I am always surprised that people are still into it. I suspect, but am not sure: Is the fandom held up by old people, or are new people coming in at a sustainable rate?

Malfoy is the funniest character in the book and should have been a girl

>>24579139
The original potterheads, those that grew up with Harry as the books released, are in their thirties. It's their money that keeps the thing alive. They try to get their children into it but it won't affect them the same way.

>>24578947 (OP)
Are there anything similar in terms of comfy world-building with better writing?

>>24578947 (OP)
Read Chrestomanci instead. JK is just discount Wynne Jones.

>>24579317
Howl was so much fun. I actually didn't like the movie interpretation, either. But the book is so fantastical and british.

>>24579106
Inevitable really. I wonder if that scene had any effect on the later romance triangle subplot with Ron and Hagrid.

>>24579041
Yeah from what I understand after number three she decided that a strong women like her didn't need no editor.

>>24579143
Harry stiffened as he forced the last of the polyjiuce potion into malfoys mouth.
As malfoy transformed into a perfect likeness of Pancy Parkinson he squirmed sobbed trying to get away from Harry.
"Call my mother a mudblood again 'Pancy' and I'll have more to shove down your throat than a potion". Said Harry holding malfoys naked quivering body, barley in control of himself.

>>24579106
She was 11 years old you sick fuck.

>>24579041
I remember five being a real slog

>>24579431
Harry Potter and the Tumescent Todger

>>24579414
>writer gets too big for their britches
>fires their editor
>story goes to shit

Many such cases.

>>24579588
>>24579597
"Harry what the bloody e'll do y'ah mean my Pollyjiuce accidentally turned me into my sister? And what in Merlins name are you naked for?"

>>24579352
Movie is okay, but yeah book is way batter.
>fantastical and british
That's why I'd recomend Chrestomanci over Harry Potter, I think what people like from HP is how "whimsy" and "british" I can see where they are coming from but DWJ does that and better.

>>24579544
Wow old in dog years. Poor boy.

I like how JKR incorporated Christmas and Halloween into her books.

>>24579650
People like imagining themselves as kids attending Hogwarts. I think that's the secret sauce.

>>24578947 (OP)
It’s wild to me how much the faggots seethe about this series on here as if they aren’t written for 6th graders. As far as YA goes there only better faire is the first few Artemis fowl books.

>>24579686
I guess, Chrestomanci Castle too has a boarding school aspect to it but I get what you mean, I also think HP is sort of more franchise friendly, make of that what you will.
>>24579945
Later books, sure, but I'd argue the series as a whole is targeting slightly younger kids, the first couple books do come across as the type of books parents are meant to read to their children, children about to or just learning how to read so essentially pre-schoolers.

>>24579978
Teehee the kids book is meant for pre-schoolers, get it!? Cause the writing is bad!

Grow up faggot.

I tried getting into it as a kid/teen as it was coming out. Outside of the world building, I couldn't get into it, so I dropped it after the third. I read the whole series a couple years ago. It was mid, though I'm glad I actually finished it

>>24579139
It's mostly millennials who still love it. Those who haven't gone into "the author is a TERF" mode

>>24579611
I'd read that book

>>24578947 (OP)
>Is Chamber of Secrets any good?
It the worst, but at least it's short. You can honestly stick to the movies up until book 4 tbdesu

Why is snape black now?

>>24580967
Why isn't Harry Korean? That would have been more kino.

Despite being the prime demographic for this series when it came out, I never did read it. I went straight from the Redwall books to picrel.

>>24579588
N-naomi Novik

>>24579017
chamber of secrets is "nothing happens until the end: the book"

>>24579683
but she forgot about easter

>>24581930
Long mysterious wait for a fucking boy vs dragon duel, its the oldest archetype in fiction

>>24578988
noble savages is what they are, american indians, african tribes from the pov of a liberal woman.

Harry Potter is a Rowling's power fantasy, where she (Hermione) is always right.

>>24580965
5th book is the worst, nothing even comes close