Comment on Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell

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Muaddib@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

In Sanderson’s super school book, there are 10 kids and only one of them is uninterested in flying spacefighters. But he is interested in engineering, so he’s still able to be a big nerd about the book’s subject matter. Everyone else is either a great pilot who likes piloting, or fucking dies in a tragic scheme emphasising the brutality and pointlessness of war.

Sanderson doesn’t write characters who just drift along without an interest in anything, because Sanderson writes books about topics that he makes interesting.

Rowling is only able to create characters who think Divination or History of Magic are boring, because she makes them boring. Sometimes on purpose!

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