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have only read the first of the twilight novels so far, but i think i already can say that i definitely prefer potter. maybe not even because of the characters, i must admit that twilight is a brilliant idea as well... but stephanie mayer just doesn't have the genius of jk rowling, it's nice and funny to read and makes me want to know the rest of the story, yes... but all the suspense (over all the 7 parts) and dangers and secrets and mysteries and surprising twists and turns that make the potter books as fantastic as they are, are missing in twilight. i think stephanie mayer could've made much more of the original idea. :wink2:

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I prefer twilight at the moment; I've read all of them and seen the flick. With Harry Potter...I've read one of the books and watched 3 movies. I don't really find Harry Potter interesting. Twilight, however, I feel as though there is a certain depth to it that is not often explored. Plus I love a bit of romance :teehee:

 

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have only read the first of the twilight novels so far, but i think i already can say that i definitely prefer potter. maybe not even because of the characters, i must admit that twilight is a brilliant idea as well... but stephanie mayer just doesn't have the genius of jk rowling, it's nice and funny to read and makes me want to know the rest of the story, yes... but all the suspense (over all the 7 parts) and dangers and secrets and mysteries and surprising twists and turns that make the potter books as fantastic as they are, are missing in twilight. i think stephanie mayer could've made much more of the original idea. :wink2:

 

Agreed. I think there's no comparing Harry Potter. There so much DEPTH to it, so much emotion, humor, etc. That's just missing in Twilight.

 

i wanted to see what other ppl's views about it were. wether or not i was the only potter fanatic lol

 

Heh, you'll never be alone. :teehee:

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Team Potter. All the way.

I grew up with the books, read them till they fell apart. Bought the english versions and improved my english by reading them over and over again.

Nobdy can compete with HP! The way JK Rowling describes everything :wub2:

and I love the films aswell. You can feel the magic.

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*carrie*

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the end is better in Harry Potter :teehee:

 

Everything is better in Harry Potter :bleh:

 

 

 

I'm going to re-read the series again for like the 10th time before the movie comes out in November :lol3:

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You know, I've read them both, and I prefer Harry Potter, but I really don't see why everyone feels the need to compare them. I think they're totally different :dunno:

 

But I don't see the resemblance between Mika and Freddie Mercury either, so... :teehee:

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was published 13 years ago today. Happy birthday HP :yay:

 

I can't believe it's been that long. I think this calls for a Harry Potter marathon :naughty:

 

That's so weird, I can totally remember reading it when it came out and being so proud for taking just under a year, but I would have been one year and 10 months old. :lmfao:

 

I think I didn't read it right when it came out then. :roftl: more likely 5 years later or so.:teehee:\

 

Wait, of course the Dutch translation came out later. :mf_rosetinted:

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I found this on tumblr. Harry Potter is obviously better. :naughty:

 

Time's Five Reasons We Love Harry Potter More Than Twilight

 

1. A Better Universe

Like George Lucas, JK Rowling is so great at creating worlds that it more than makes up for whatever flaws her writing suffers from. Think about all the wonderful things we know about Rowling’s wizarding world: Where they shop, what they eat, what kind of prejudices their societies have. Consider all the wonderful little side-characters she stacks the stories with: Neville Longbottom, Arthur Weasley, even Lee Jordan, the Quidditch announcer. We know them.

 

By contrast, what do we know about the world of Twilight? Three things: Good vampires don’t bite people. Vampires and werewolves don’t like each other. Vampires like baseball. That is all.

 

2. Better Acting

Let us examine the state of both franchises’ werewolves. The werewolf in Twilight is played by human action figure Taylor Lautner. Lautner is a undoubtedly a nice boy, but no one would disagree with the assertion that he is more famous for his workout regimen than anything he’s done on screen.

 

The werewolf in Harry Potter is played by acclaimed British thespian David Thewlis. Have you even seen Thewlis’s gripping performance in Mike Leigh’s Naked, Twihards? No, of course, you haven’t.

 

3. Better Villains

It might not be exactly fair to compare Harry Potter and Twilight on this issue; after all, Lord Voldemort is one of the greatest villains in recent pop-culture history. (He got the the Final Four in Techland’s super-scientific March Madness villains bracket.) Voldemort is a genocidal dictator who scares people so much they won’t even say his name. He wants immortality and will do anything (even drink unicorn blood!) to get it. He killed Harry’s parents — and tried to kill Harry —when our hero was just a defenseless little baby. Shoot, just writing this is making me glad he’s not real.

 

But even without being compared to Voldemort, the bad guys in Twilight are weak. A villain played by Cam Gigandet (What is this, The OC?), Michael Sheen (Oh no, it’s Tony Blair!) or Bryce Dallas Howard (Come off it, I saw Lady in the Water) just isn’t scary enough for me. You could make the case that Bella’s inevitable aging is the real villain of Twilight, but come on! This isn’t Star Trek — invisible intangible villains aren’t going to cut it.

 

4. Healthier Attitudes Toward Sex

Twilight is basically a supernatural version of Secret Life of the American Teenager: Everyone talks about sex all the time, and how BAD and HORRIBLE and AWFUL and WONDERFUL it would be. In Harry Potter, no one talks about sex at all. Having been weaned on Jane Austen adaptations, NewsFeed much prefers stuffy British repression over American teenage wangst.

 

 

5. It’s Lasted Longer

The members of NewFeed’s generation have grown up with Harry Potter. We got Sorcerer’s Stone from the library in elementary school, waited in line for Order of the Phoenix in high school, dressed up for the Goblet of Fire movie with our freshman dorm in college. The years-long gap between films and movies filled us with anticipation. Each new release — as numerous trend pieces show — is an event.

 

Twilight is much more ephemeral. The books have only been out since 2005, (which, if you’re counting, is when the second-to-last Potter book was released.) The films, rushed into production in case the trend dissipates, are even worse: the first movie came out barely a year and a half ago. There’s no waiting around, but there’s also no growing old with the characters. Twilight is undoubtedly a commercial entrprise — over $1 billion internationally for just the first two films — but it’s simply not a lasting cultural one.

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