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rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 4 days agoThis is even more dumb when even Joan f-g Rowling in her books about magic for children described how and why magic can’t do this. One of the reasons I like Harry Potter - not for the plot or the human part, but for the magic there being quite similar to computers in our time. With similar limitations, except for unique cases.
So no matter how much one hates Rowling (I don’t, she’s done more good than evil by far still), she’s smarter and more decent than most of the humanity. That sucks.
Ledivin@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Lol. She lucked into an amazing world that managed to remain a good story despite her writing, not because of it. She’s not an idiot, but literally every other piece of writing she’s ever put out kinda slams the “smarter than most of humanity” line.
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Ledivin@lemmy.world 3 days ago
They weren’t meant to be causative, and I stand by what I said. Her writing is objectively bad, and it’s amazing that she didn’t manage to ruin this series like everything else she’s written. Yes, I know those are strong words, and yes, I do believe them.
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Well, how can one speak about some thing’s author, the person who has built it from scratch, as of someone who can ruin it or not?
That said, it’s hard for me to read her in English, and I’ve read HP mostly in at least three translations to Russian, one official and two unofficial ones. The former sucks, and from the latter two the one which reads the best is by the least professional translator (actually she’s not a translator at all), and I mean Maria Spivak (the original one to circulate in the Runet and samizdat versions, not the abomination published much later).
It communicates the feeling of mad and a bit hooligan-ish fairy tale, I suspect that emotionally it’s the closest to the original.
Anyway, it’s pretty normal for an author to have a magnum opus and the rest of their works to just not make sense.