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My honest Harry Potter opinion is that the first three books are solid kid lit and there's a gradual drop of quality from there. Half-Blood Prince is BAD. As a kid, I gradually lost interest without being able to explain why.
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The only political thing that bothered me from the very beginning was that squibs (as well as "uneducated" wizards like Arianna Dumbledore) are basically disabled; people with magical disabilities are treated like shit with no resolution.
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As a white American kid, I didn't have more insight than that until Rowling went TER*F and former fans with literature degrees started tearing the series apart looking for racism, antisemitism, etc.
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But I definitely had Potter fatigue by that point. There was so much pressure to like HP well into adulthood, and I had moved on. I didn't have the same sense of betrayal as others.
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We forget how hegemonic Pottermania was in the early-mid 2010s. Hating on HP wasn't just uncouth, it was *right-wing* coded.