Gia I did a little calculation. This discussion started back in 2005 July, but let’s just say it was 2006, which means it has indeed been going on for 6 years. There are 174 posts in the discussion, INCLUDING those of HP supporters like you coming here to personally attack those who hate the series. In average, a post gets published every 12,5 days. Meaning every 2 weeks or so, someone type out 3 or so paragraphs to contribute to the discourse or defend his/her argument. In the days and ages of Internet communication, I’d hardly call that a drastic measure from HP haters’ part to express our opinions. Furthermore, and I don’t want to make you gasp, there exist a lot of people who hate Harry Potter and Potterheads with a burning passion that have never visited this site or posted here. You can find them on Facebook, Tumblr etc.

Sure. After 6 years, you’d think most people would have moved on. But you see, the world haven’t moved on the Harry Potter fad so why should us move on from our hatred? Even though I can’t speak for others, I hate Harry Potter consistently, which means that despite wanting fervently to forget all about the books’ existences I will hate them whenever I think of them. So as long as you keep yapping about how much everyone must love Harry Potter and that those hate the whole thing should shut up, I (and many others) will continue to hate it expressively.

Gia, like someone before must have said, many other Potterheads have already attacked us for giving “too detailed” analyses on why we hate Harry Potter. They too have implied that those posts proved that we are obsessed with and/or jealous of J.K.Rowling. It seems obvious to me that you can’t hate Harry Potter because if you:

1. don’t care for the books, have never read them or seen the films, have no intention to and simply crunch your nose up in disgust at the mania surrounding the series, you’re an ignorant asshole who hate for no good reason.
2. have read the books, seen several of the films and can cite logical and well-researched reasons why you hate them and think they have terrible influences on the readers, you’re obsessed with the series and have no life.

Potterheads have created a cult for themselves by constantly trying to tear down those who don’t like Harry Potter, don’t admire J.K.Rowling as an author and dare to speak out as opposed to silently suffering the horrible fad and letting everybody else enjoying themselves in blissful ignorance. Before Gia even began to address our arguments, she had already managed to insult our intelligence, common sense and the lack of faith/love we had in her God- J.K.Rowling.

In the last 16 posts that you find so disgusting, the authors, including me, have made many points worth addressing, but you have only touched only 4 of them, none of which I have made but all of which you have answered with frankly laughable counter-arguments.

1. It does not matter whether the brooms decide the winners in Quidditch or not. J.K.Rowling would have Harry Potter win all the important games anyway. If the brooms were crucial, she’d give him the best one. If not, he’d win some other way. The way J.K.Rowling wrote about Quidditch would pretty much insult any sport fan had it not seemed like a joke, unintentional on her part but nonetheless intentional in the minds of those who want to keep loving Harry Potter and sports at the same time. Just take any serious athlete in high school hoping to become a professional some day. Do you even know how much he/she has to sacrifice and how obsessed he/she is with the sport? And yet, Harry Potter, the legendary Seeker in Hogwarts, certainly good enough to become pro any day, pretty much strutted on the pitch and won the game. He spent most of his time thinking about Voldemort, schoolwork, girls, Malfoy etc before giving Quidditch a few shallow thoughts, which someone who watches the World Cup now and then would give to football. On the other hand, Ron, who has obsessed over Quidditch since birth, only got on the team in book 5 and struggled until the end. Rubbish. I’m not saying that it was Harry’s fault that he didn’t know about Quidditch until Hogwarts and that he didn’t have more time to obsess over it, but if a 11 year old who has never heard of football or watched a game of football learned to play for the first time, he would struggle for a long long while before he could even master the simple techniques, let alone play with older footballers and win the game for them, no matter how much of a natural he is.

2. The entire point system is an illogical plot devise by Ms.Rowling to give Harry some sense of triumph. Every school year, we have 7 different age group attending god know how many classes. In any of those classes, the teachers can give or deduct point from a student’s house for his/her academic understanding and/or behaviors. In fact, with the way McGonagall and Snape did that in Harry’s classes, it seems highly likely that multiple points get added and deducted for two or more houses in every class that takes place (as I remember, a class usually had students from 2 or more houses). This fact renders the whole system inscrutable to students, meaning they can tell at any moment which house has the most points and which has the least but they can’t tell why. Yet HP and Co. had no qualm about proclaiming that they almost came last in the House Cup because “Snape hates us!!!” or because “Harry broke the rule”. Apparently the system doesn’t work when J.K.Rowling isn’t looking or, in other words, where Harry isn’t concerned. Kids who are 2 years below/above Harry, not related to Ron, in Ravenclaw/Hufflepuff just basically did not exist in the series. So points won by Quidditch matches ultimately proves inconsequential if we’re talking about logic. They only acted as plot device for J.K.Rowling to dramatically rescue Harry and Gryffindor from the pit of finishing last in the House Cup.

3. I did not make that slut-Ginny comment and did not see anybody call Ginny a slut. However, having no passage in the books of Ginny taking her top off hardly proves that she did not engage in any sexual act, with or without Harry. J.K.Rowling would never put that in a children book. But do you really believe that Harry Potter, a heterosexual male in his teen years, lived a life so devoid of any sexual thoughts and acts as depicted in the book? Even if he and Ginny did do the deeds, I wouldn’t call Ginny a slut. Please take your argument up with someone who does.

By the way, nice way to sum up our arguments there: “WAAaahh, Harry/Rowling is teh suXX0rz for hating Slytherin it’s sooo not cool that Slytherins are all ev0l!!11″. Let me give it a try with your argument: “WAAAaah, these people h8 Harry Potter. J.K.Rowling is the gr8est EVA. I betta insult dem for thinking of her as GODD!!!1111”

We did not criticize Harry for doing any of the things you list. We criticized him for:
1. being an asshole in general to his friends.
2. whining all the time about his Chosen one-ness, believing that nobody has it tough but him.
3. displaying no personal growth, being bratty, treating people horribly for no reason before they turn out to be the villains by the ends of the books (how convenient).
4. And despite ALL of those things, everyone still looks up to him and hails him as the hero of their time, the epitome of goodness and so forth, making him a Sue as a result.

J.K.Rowling has created an entitled and horrible character that most likely mirrors her unapologetic attitude about her middle class privileges and tried to pass him off as a hero. And she has apparently succeeded because Gia, I don’t know you were born rude or learned it from someone else, but you might as well internalized that sort of behaviors after years of trying to emulate Potter. You had not read a word of Harley’s work and already you are insulting it for the sake of an Internet argument.