Enough with Harry Potter already.

Harry Potter is a pretty great series, I still reread the books once in a while, and I don't mind when the movies come on, it ages pretty nicely from a silly magic adventure into a kind of dark struggle for survival against wizard Hitler, and all of the characters develop into fairly complete human beings, with flaws and good qualities aplenty. There are issues to be sure, the plot has a number of holes and the setting just doesn't hold up at all if you take the time to think about it, but overall it has been a nice contribution to the entertainment world and JK Rowling seems like she completely deserves the massive fortune she has attained from it.

Also Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson are great.

That said, can we all agree that it might be time to read a different book? I have problems when a pop culture item becomes a lifestyle, which is one of the reasons Dr. Who irritates the hell out of me, and while yes there are certainly other things people could fixate on that are worse, such as, oh, I dunno, Mein Kampf or something. Still it's pretty aggravating and I can't help but feel like that is negative progress.

Now I am not claiming this is responsible for the decay of society or anything, furries, as always, shoulder that burden. This is just something that irritates me, every week or so I see something like a Tumblr post talking about how what if professor Mcgonagall is gay and here is the beautiful way the characters would all react because they are perfect, or how some other teacher would handle racism, it's always a couple paragraphs with literally no grounding in the actual series where they all act like saints or some shit, and it's so tiresome.

The latest was something equating fired FBI director James Comey to professor Snape because his firing, and his habit of keeping memos of communications with the president, might contribute to The Toddler being removed from office someday.

I, just, what? People, Comey was a reasonably competent FBI director who decided to play politics and fucked everything up, everything since then has just been him doing his job in the fashion he should have been the whole time. Snape was actually a villain, you get that right? He had every chance in the world to not fuck things up, and he didn't, he only sorta kinda turned on Voldemort when his actions caused the death of his unrequited crush, and even then he did a terrible job and made life hell for not only the hero, but everyone he came across, yeah he ended up having an important role in the ultimate victory, but there were innumerable times before then when he could have stopped the story single handed and didn't because he was an utter tool.
He is a villain with a couple character flaws that make him sympathetic to people who think the "Friend Zone" is a thing, other than that he is pretty terrible.

I get it, when all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail, likewise when all you have read are Harry Potter novels, the entire world looks dumb as hell I guess. So read something else, anything else, read The Hunger Games if you have to pick some big property, go to the library and pick a random book, read Towers and spend some time trying to plug that into every single real world event, at least that would be interesting.

I understand that we all interpret things through the scope of our experiences, your experiences being entirely a young adult fantasy series is tiresome and limiting, expand the scope already.