Harry Potter?

[alexandral]

Half-term school holidays are over!! I am back in the land of living or "less of real life, more of virtual".

My daughter and I had:
- 2 swimming pool trips,
- one shopping trip ,
- two sleepovers,
- I passed bronze level in ice-skating. I can have an ice-skating passport now! woo-hoo!
- My daughter's fishtank is set up. It looks great now! And only one fish has died (so far)!

Harry Potter
I had a week of holidays and finally I have done something I wanted to do for ages - caught up on reading Harry Porter books and watching Harry Potter films (I have only seen two of the films before and once half-heartedly attempted to start the first book). I quite like both. The books are quite pleasant and have some lovely secondary characters and details but there is nothing special or outstanding in the writing or original in the story. But I am quite sure that if I had a chance to start reading the books when I was twelve and never heard about the hype surrounding them I might have been hooked.

The films definitely get better as they go. In the first film the children-actors' acting is quite a bit on a wooden side but this improves in the later films. The special effects continue to improve too.

On the whole - the big popularity of the series is still a mystery to me.

Comments

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

What's an ice skating passport? Whatever it is...congratulations on attaining it!

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

This means I can join the National Skating Society now. Woo- hoo!!!

[joonni.livejournal.com]

For me, harry potter is the perfectly balanced book of interesting read without dense writing.

And I like magic. I love world-building, especially if it is world-building into a world that already exists.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

I think I agree with "perfectly balanced" - it is very middle-of-the-road series (which might be one of the reasons for it's popularity). Nothing is out of ordinary but everything is well-done and "wholesome".


I like world-building too! There are some wonderfully detailed secondary characters in the books, I agree.

[dianora77.livejournal.com]

the big popularity of the series is still a mystery to me.

Me too. I love the movies though, especially third and fourth.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

I have been pondering quite a lot on the HP phenomena. I think the fact that the books are so middle-of-the-road and "wholesome" might be a big contributing fact to their popularity. It is like "High School musical" with magic. And another thing - these books are very BRITHISH. This might be a contributing factor too.

I am on the third film now and yes - it is very good. Ron is my favouritest character overall, I must go and find some of his icons in your lj (I think I remember you making some of Ron).