Being a werewolf is NOTHING like having HIV/AIDS. Vampirism is and that was exploited to death in the Sookie Stackhouse

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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — J. K. Rowling

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Otkon — 9 years ago(September 12, 2016 03:05 AM)

Being a werewolf is NOTHING like having HIV/AIDS. Vampirism is and that was exploited to death in the Sookie Stackhouse series. Plus, being a werewolf is supercool and something you only have to deal with three nights a month. Having a stigmatizing illness is a constant struggle of seriously-not-very-awesome.
Stick to superficially ripping off Roald Dahl. It's what you do best.

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Mercader79 — 9 years ago(September 18, 2016 11:18 PM)

Stick to superficially ripping off Roald Dahl. It's what you do best.
She's nothing like Roald Dahl! Have you ever read either of them? It would seem not.

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Picnic10 — 9 years ago(September 20, 2016 10:30 AM)

The Weaselys are pure Roald Dahl's The Twits. The rest of Harry Potter's a blend of Jill Murphy's The Worst Witch and aspects of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.
I do hate what the success of Harry Potter says about modern Britain. The vast majority of children who never went to private school living through a series of fantasy books rather than having real opportunities.

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Mercader79 — 9 years ago(September 20, 2016 11:33 AM)

The Twits are evil disgusting characters. They are nothing like the lovable Weasleys. And I love Dahl.
Containing influences from many other books does not make her unoriginal.
And Hogwarts is a fantasy. You might be as well complain because most wardrobes don't transport children to Narnia!
Basically, the OP's talking rubbish.

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sesquick-seabag — 9 years ago(October 31, 2016 10:43 PM)

I thought it was privately educated, middle-class boarding school kids who lap up Harry Potter more than anyone else.
You probably meant the Dursleys, who are very similar to Dahl's caricatures, and not the Weasleys. Though I would say they're more like the Wormwoods in Matilda than the Twits.
I don't think her books are overwhelmingly similar to Tolkien. I can think of more that Tolkien borrowed from other authors and works, actually.

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Mercader79 — 9 years ago(January 12, 2017 06:00 AM)

I thought it was privately educated, middle-class boarding school kids who lap up Harry Potter more than anyone else.
They sell far too well for that to be the case. I doubt even one in ten HP readers went to boarding school.
I agree with the rest of what you say though.

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TheFearmakers — 4 years ago(December 09, 2021 04:19 AM)

she rips off the writing style of CS LEWIS narnia the most. "he had a mustache; it was a mustache of a particular way" paraphrasing of course but
www.thefearmakers.blogspot.com

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sherineyousery — 9 years ago(November 29, 2016 05:53 AM)

Being a werewolf is very stagmitazing in the wizarding world. And a lot of children and grown ups have found solace and strength in the metaphors she made and the world she created.