I’m so glad I have found this site. I have unfortunately surrounded myself with people who love Harry Potter and assume that liking it is default for any teenager. For years, I prayed that the madness would one day stop. But alas, it’ll never, what with the milking way of J.K.Rowling. She has apparently said that she considered writing another book.

Even though I agree with all the criticism people have commented on here about Harry Potter, I still have a few things which I detest about HP that nobody here has discussed.
1. I don’t understand the villain- Voldermort and his rise to power at all. By the end of Book 7, it’s become clear that he has done all those terrible things to avoid death. If he just feared death, why didn’t he just go on a quest of immortality alone? Wouldn’t it draw less attention to himself? Why would he want an entire army after his behind while he’s scared shitless of death? RIDICULOUS. Not to mention that he didn’t know of the Deathly Hallows’ existence, thus tried making Hocruxes. How could someone so hellbent on living forever not do the research? Dumbledore and Grindelward both had, so it must not have been impossible.
I don’t buy that he particularly believes in all the Pureblood above all crap either, especially since he himself is in fact a Halfblood.
How could he preach that inane crap to serve an entirely different end? Who could have believed him? Even if the Purebloods themselves wanted to wipe out the Muggles, why did they deem him their leader?
He seemed downright stupid in the novels. I’m appalled that J.K.Rowling called him as something of a magic’s master. Every time he failed, he seemed bowled over, unable to comprehend why his plan fell apart. Not to mention the end, when he died, because get this: he COULDN’T DEDUCE the true master of the Elder Wand.
Anyone with a brain and half would say EFF this, I’m not following this senile maniac. Yet, had he had no loyal follower, he would in no shape or form come back like he did in all those books. Really, he lived on the backside of some dude’s head, then needed Wormtail to resurrect his body etc. Even if the Death Eaters feared him, they could have clearly seen his decrepit state and concluded that he was not as mighty as thought.
Not to mention, he’s done nothing but terrorize them. I can’t for the life of me understand how he earned himself an army.
2. Even though the entire point of the war was the differing opinions on Muggles, we had very vague idea about the wizards/witches- Muggles relation.
In fact, OBSERVE: we have NO MUGGLE character who is actually likable. In fact, the Dursleys, who despicably abused the hero, are the only notable muggles in the story. The two Squibs (Filch and HP’s smelly neighbor) both turned out to be senile, unlikable- no redeeming characteristics at all.
Basically, characters in HP all look down upon Muggles, seeing the lack of magic as a handicap. The only difference is that the evil ones don’t have self-righteousness to take pity on them.
I find this attitude incredibly detestable. The Light side see the Muggles as their charity case and the Death Eaters as the evils to conquer. Other than themselves, they don’t think of anybody as HUMAN BEINGS.
A hilarious instance is the time he and Hermione had to teach Grawp, Hagrid’s half brother, manners. Even though Hermione herself for the entire book has been preaching about fighting for House Elves’ rights. She shuddered in horror at the thought of helping a half-giant function in the world. The Glorious Trio also quit Care for Magical Creatures as soon as they were allowed to. Quite hypocritical when the novels drone on and on about tolerance and equality. Nobody as a matter fact gave a shit about magical creatures.
3. Harry Potter himself captures and epitomizes this sickeningly condescending attitude so well. Even though he arrives from as a mistreated orphan, he didn’t have any problem looking at people as the decorations for his awesomeness at all. He treated Ron as his sidekick and Hermione as a almanac. Yet as soon as he doesn’t agree with them, he went off on a tantrum, full of banalities like: “they don’t know what it feels like, they don’t understand how he is the way he is, his trials and tribulations, even though he did nothing but got born”. Yikes!
I have to admit I quite liked the first few movies. They dazzled me. So when I tried reading the book, I was quite appalled at how ill Harry often thought of everybody, not just his enemies, but also his friends. He seemed to think them pitiful, even if he didn’t directly say so. He noticed the pathetic quest for fame and acknowledgement in the Weasley clan and seemed more or less looked down upon them. Like the time Mrs. Weasley announced the promotion of her husband in book 6, Harry noted that she must have made small talks only to let out that bit of information. Whether he explicitly stated so or not, I always got the vibe that he found them a bit disdainful. Yet, he still wanted them around. Why?
Ron admittedly made him look really good in comparison. Despite his mediocre grades, Ron was always beside him with worse results. Hermione doesn’t count, cause she’s Hermione. The walking almanac. Occasionally he got to lavish his inherited wealth on his poor friend. I don’t call this tolerance, acceptance in friendship or whatever, I call this condescension. We respect our friends and from times to times have them challenge us. Harry does neither.
Why should he? He’s better at magic, at Quidditch, at popularity, just better than Ron. When he seems wrong, he’s just misunderstood. All shall be resolved by the end of the book.
Anyone who keeps people around for the sake of decoration like he does comes off as pathetic to me.
Had he accepted Draco’s friendship offer in book 1, we would have seen a relationship in which two people could probably challenge each other.
Nobody gave him a slap and tell him to grow up. That was my problem. Who doesn’t think their younger self is a bit dumb? Not Harry. He was the hero from birth.
4. The only redeeming point is the backstory of his parents. Nobody was Sue. Except for Lily Evans, who was so Sue her Sueness carried on to Ginny Weasley.
I mean I’m glad that James and Sirius were both bullies. That sounds incredibly believable that they were both jerks. One died. And the other lived in agony before dying. I feel horribly vindicated by that. No matter how well liked they were as people, nobody excused their behaviors. James’ walking all over Wormtail got him walked over in return. Sirius’ mistreatment of Kreacher got himself killed. Maybe that’s fair. But at least that’s life.