J.K. Rowling or Suzanne Collins?
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Re: J.K. Rowling or Suzanne Collins?
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I'd like to hear you explain what they are or how Rowling's idea that racism and bigotry is bad is not "proven" lol.Adonis Maratos wrote:J. K. Rowling definitely, i feel like Suzanne Collins is quite a bit overrated... I may get some people angry with this but c'mon people, the books were successful because they were just full of cheesiness and already proven ideas...
Some of this is true but some are just plain lies.Desto wrote:Harry Potter Series, because :
- Harry Potter teaches you more "values" than Hunger Games.
- Harry Potter had one of the strongest friendships in books, like ever.
- If Hunger Games had a strong female in Katniss, then HP had many of strong women like Hermione, Luna, Professor McGonagall, Lily Potter.
Harry Potter also teaches us it's OK to use physical violence against a friend because you're upset or angry if you're Hermione no matter what you do is always right (end sarcasm) and it's OK to torture someone just because you are angry and sick to the same level as Death Eaters. I should also mention what a terrible friend Harry has been to Ron and Hermione multiple times in the last few books.
Also you should realise some of the strong female characters you listed in HP are really flat characters with almost no weaknesses.
The hatred for the last HG book from some people is getting ridiculous. Sure, it is not a perfect book by any means, but it showed pretty clearly and realistically what happens in a terrible war. Good, innocent people die all the time in horrible wars. Simple. It's a lot more realistic than the HP ending where almost all main characters survived.
On Harry and Katniss – The big difference between them is that Katniss actually works really hard to get to where she wants whereas Harry tends to have everything handed to him on a silver platter. For example, Katniss developed her archery skills through years of practice hunting in the woods. Harry, on the other hand, apparently got his impressive flying and DADA through natural talents, no work required.
When Katniss heard she was going back to the arena in the Quarter Quell, she quickly buckled down and trained really hard for it. Ditto for when she expressed the desire to become a proper soldier in the rebellion. What did Harry do in HBP after learning that he had to face Voldemort at the end of OotP? Oh that’s right, he spent almost the whole of HBP allowing his lust, um chest monster, to dictate his actions to the point that he even wanted to waste his lucky potion to get a popular girl (don't you need to face the dark lord soon kid?). Katniss, on the other hand, never thought about dating that much because um she had bigger worries than who to take to a party.
I should also say that Harry broke the school rules to get a fake title of potions prince and because he wants some adventure whereas Katniss broke the rules in her district in order to feed her family.
Or let's look at the epilogue - the HP has got this fantasy all is well ending whereas the HG epilogue showed the main characters realistically struggling to overcome the horrors of the war.
I also should mention how illogical some of the laws governing the use of magic and wandlore in Potterverse. I would like to hear anyone try to explain how the wandlore rules work exactly considering it was introduced at the very last minute.
I like both series (for different reasons) and it is clear Rowling took on a far more ambitious and difficult project than Collins did.
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When it comes to them as people though I don't know a lot about Collins, but seeing how Rowling behaves herself as a public figure nowadays makes me pretty sure that I will like Collins better. Who knows though...
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