my nigger in christ, the books are pretty trash too. spending a gazillion pages world building does not make a good story, but rowling was an amateur writer who didn't know anything else. that's why the books ballooned in size coinciding with her attempt to expand the story's scope but only managing to expand the world's scope. the world building doesn't wrap until they enter aberforth's house in the 7th book, basically .2% of the text from the end. they're like 6/10, which puts them leagues ahead of most other fantasy, but miles behind tolkein, for example, and at par with christopher paolini's star wars clone dragon books of the same era.
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