All The Reasons Why “Harry Potter” Actually Sucks (You Know It’s True)
The first Harry Potter book came out in 1997. So that means pretty much every kid born around 1986 or after has had to live in a world ruled by Muggles. They have hoped that, one of these days, they’ll finally get their Hogwarts acceptance letter. Even if they’re 30 years old. But so you know what?
Harry Potter isn’t all actually all that great. In fact, it’s full of glaring problems. Here are all the reasons why Harry Potter actually sucks.
The books aren’t well written
Let’s just go ahead and get this one out of the way first. While J.K. Rowling does an excellent job of world building, the story itself is beyond basic. Harry is undoubtedly good, while Voldemort is nothing but evil. The struggle is simplistic at best, and the writing reflects it.
Plus, there are plot holes that just cannot be overlooked. (I’m looking at you, Peter Pettigrew and the Marauder’s Map.
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The first two movies are cheesy AF but are also the only ones that stay completely true to the source material
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Watching the Chris Columbus movies is exactly like watching a children’s book put to film. And that’s fine, because they’re actually the truest to Rowling’s work over the others. The further along into the film series you get, the more side plots get dropped or changed, because Hollywood.
The last three movies are dark. Literally.
We can only imagine the production meeting conversations for these. “No, guys, the story is dark, so let’s just throw a blue filter over it. That way everyone will know how to feel just by looking at the screen.” No one will be able to see anything, but at least we’ll all know how to feel.
The films were produced before the book series was finished
If they had just waited a few years, the filmmakers would have known how important something like the mention of Grindewald would be. Or Peeves. Or, oh, we don’t know… Dobby? Maybe if they would have just taken a step back, Dobby could have gotten the on-screen treatment he deserved.
Not that we’re bitter or anything.