LOL, from my avatar you can infer I don't like these literary devices. JKR was especially egregrious in their usage in her series, and after 7 books of the stuff, I really got my fill of them
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Harry Potter is not for the detail oriented. Seriously. I think the fans who can just read and enjoy the books have an easier time of it than those of us who feel the need to take it apart and put it together again. I think there were (are) three main feeds to the fanfiction: the length of time between books, the wealth of detail left unexplored in the books, and some inconsistencies in the story. I can't speak to the Twilight series because I still haven't read it, but as a rule I'm not typically spurred to write fanfiction. Harry Potter and the original Star Wars movies are the only things I've ever written about. Most of the time I'm content to go where the author takes me. If the author goes down a path I'm not interested in, I usually find something else to do/watch/read.
Deus ex Machinae...that's a touchier subject and harder to articulate properly. I may have begun expecting a little too much from JKR after she spectacularly suckered me in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I'm usually harder to fool. I can't tell
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Deus ex Machinae...that's a touchier subject and harder to articulate properly. I may have begun expecting a little too much from JKR after she spectacularly suckered me in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I'm usually harder to fool. I can't tell ( ... )
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