June Something: Harry Potter is the Schitt (Public Post)

[author_by_night]

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Skipping around because what is order, anyway?

Compare and/or contrast your very first fandom obsession and your very latest fandom obsession.Under the cut - Harry Potter, Schitt's Creek, Buffy

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[hamsterwoman]

Oh, right, Xander and Anya's relationship. Yeah, that was not good. (I think the only thing I liked about that was the song in "Once More with Feeling"). But yes, he is definitely a character I liked more at the start and then progressively less as the seasons went on, while Ron, while he is flawed and falters, actually gets to grow. Of course, we also meet Ron as an 11-year-old, not a high school student, but still.

I think part of the problem is that we're not necessarily supposed to see Hermione's cringier moments as all that cringey, whereas we are with Willow, which does make it more interesting.

Yep, completely agree. Willow's darkness/potential for darkness is obviously acknowledged by the show, but I agree with you that I don't think we're meant to see Hermione's more ruthless moments as anything to worry about, because she's doing it for a good cause (which I think is the way Gryffindor morality goes dark, but I don't think that's what we're intended to take away from it).

Willow misused magic, but it was more of an ethics problem than an addiction problem until they made it about addiction.

Yeah. Not only was it a boring after school special storyline with the magic "pushers" not particularly well done, but as you say, it wasn't even the right analogy.