who caree what hateful jk has to say anymore.
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Not to mention, she literally had nothing to do with HP's success as a franchise - that was down to her publisher and the marketing the publisher did. There's 100 books a year published that are as good or better than HP's first book, but they just won't have the combination of good marketing and publisher support that HP had.
I also find it meaningless to ask successful people how they became successful, because there's always a strong element of luck and random chance. Not only can a person only catch lightning in a bottle once, but they can't instruct someone else how to do it.
If they could, we'd all be successful.
Holy shit, the crab bucket mentality here is off the wall. I haven't read them myself, but do you really think marketing is the reason her books are so insanely popular?
Especially since her books are popular with one of the most cynical and marketing wary groups of people in existence.
If you haven’t read them yourself then you don’t understand how truly horrible her writing is. Her prose is wooden, her dialogue is forced, and she named a Chinese character “Cho Chang” with a straight face. There are plot holes so big that she has to continually go back and retcon random bullshit, like the literal plumbing at Hogwarts. The big scary spell is “abracadabra” with one letter changed.
She’s a hack.
Don't forget about the only black person in the book being named "Kingsley Shacklebolt". Or that the house elves all actually want to be slaves! Or her drawing of the wizarding schools of the world where all of Eastern Europe shares one school but England and Scotland have their own schools.
When you name the only Asian character in the book "Cho Chang" and the only black person "Shacklebolt", the writing itself really isn't good.