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Why don't I draw Harry Potter anymore? Well, it's Terry Pratchett's fault, really. Sure, they're both fantasy, but Fantasy is just another view of reality, really.... and after enjoying a good balance of drama and humor and reality in the first books, you can stand whining for so long. And when an ENTIRE BOOK whines, and an author kill people not because it moves the plot, or because it fits the characters actions, but to drum up headlines, you start wondering if the author is writing to tell a story or make a buck.

I'll admit that meeting Terry Pratchett may have biased me slightly- he's an international best seller and millions of fans, but involving fans in the process and explaining why everything happens in a book, even if the fans don't like it, makes the books easy to pick up and enjoy. And every time he promotes a book, I have the feeling he doesn't mind if you don't like a specific character. It's his story, he doesn't need to defend it, but he'll humor you anyways. And his children's books don't talk down to them, they treat them like the little adults they are, who just need some maturity. As an education Masters degree holder, I love this- most modern teaching theories work using the same qualities found in a Pratchett book.

I know there are people who are Pratchett and Rowling fans, and some people don't like either. These are my opinions, not fact.

I need to practice Tiffany more.
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~chaos-in-compounded Dec 25, 2012
AMEN
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*JesIdres Jan 3, 2013
:)
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!mangagirl1603 Sep 10, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
I love Harry Potter (apart from the last book) but I'm on Pratchett's side :D
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*JesIdres Sep 12, 2012
Both have their plusses. When I drew this, people were trying to say Rowling reinvented british fantasy.
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!mangagirl1603 Sep 13, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Her books are massively famous but reinvented British fantasy? Nope, that's a Pratchett description
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~Druce-White-Owl May 24, 2012  Professional Writer
Thank god I'm not the only one who feels this way! I liked the Potter series right up until Book 5. Unfortunately by then I'd begun studying writing and English for a writing career of my own, and I began seeing the very things you complain of here. Shoddy characterization, over-reliance on angst as motivation, and a pathetic tendency to kill of characters for no apparent reason. It drove me up the wall. I didn't discover the DiscWorld books until after all the HP books had come out, after reading my very first one I thought "WHY HAS NO ONE TOLD ME ABOUT THESE SOONER!?"
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~Woschaebedip Mar 6, 2012
True true... Awesome.
Ps: Is it "Angst" like the German "Angst"? Is it used in English?
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*JesIdres Mar 10, 2012
More like 'emotional sadness'.
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~Woschaebedip Mar 11, 2012
Interesting, I didn't know that... :)
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~SpindleWinter Jun 3, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Rowling didn't invent Vimes or Vetinari. I rest my case.

Although she did come up with Snape, who was pretty cool until they turned him mushy; I mean, why can't an 'evil' guy do good things? I bet Vetinari hasn't got a soppy lovebound backstory- he does it because that's who he is. You don't have to be NICE to be GOOD. Doe Patronuses? Come on, you're having a giggle... Also, killing off half your characters offscreen is never a good idea. If PTerry had made Remus, I'm willing to bet he would have given him the werewolf smackdown ending everyone wanted...

And he least he KNOWS his stupid names are stupid. Albus Severus Potter. For that, JK, I will never forgive you.
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