Harry Potter really isn’t that great
I have read all the books. They are mediocre at best. I haven’t seen all the movies so who knows maybe those are good. But the books aren’t as great as everyone says they are. The world building isn’t good, the main characters are a bit boring, and the plot is just eh. The hype around it is too much.
To add onto this thanks to a comment about how to make it better.
I don’t find the world building immersive. On a surface level it’s ok but there isn’t really any depth.
I just don’t find the main characters interesting. I don’t know how to explain it besides they are boring. I don’t really see any growth of the characters throughout it.
It’s the same thing over and over each book. Harry does stupid shit. Almost gets killed. Doesn’t get killed. Rinse and repeat. Also the plot as a whole doesn’t seem thought out.
Also Voldemort is a boring villain. —————————————————————————— Note due to comments about how it makes sense you wouldn’t like it as an adult I would like to mention I read them early teens and am still currently a teenager. Nothing to do with my age. —————————————————————————— Also adding why I read all of them. I read them because I wanted to know what the hype was about and I found the first few ok enough to keep reading. I wanted to see if it got better. Also having access to all the books and being quarantined to my room for two weeks gave me quite a bit of time. ——————————————————————————- Another edit to copy paste my comment on what books I like because people keep asking:
Starting from elementary school and ending now my favorite series have been: The Magic Tree House, I Survived, Nancy Drew, City of Ember, Warrior Cats, Little House, Chronicles of Narnia, Hunger Games, the first Divergent book (didn’t like the other two), The Giver, and The Maze Runner.
Some other books I like in no order of when I read them: A Night Divided, Winnie the Pooh and Making Bombs for Hitler and The Call of Cthulhu. I am sure there are others but I done remember all of them right now.
I don’t really have time for independent reading anymore so I don’t have any series or I like from the past three years or so because of all the books assigned in school. My favorite of those though have been (in no particular order) Frankenstein, The Odyssey, The Crucible, Cesar and 1984.
I also read a lot of nonfiction books in elementary school. I don’t remember specifics of those but there were a lot checked out from the library.