so I've been reading Harry Potter I was
gonna check him down but the roommates
books
this one's mine though I can do whatever
I want with this one if I were to put
the engagements of the series down to
two things it would be creativity and
mystery mainly creativity magical worlds
are pretty common in writing but this
ain't no abracadabra a generic made [ __ ]
there's a floating staircase wizard
sports books that want to eat you books
to fly remember old illuminae is my
little pony I could go on like like I
even go on unlike most fantasy the world
is just covered in it and it would be
difficult to say that isn't crucial to
the success of the series but that's not
really what I want to talk about not
exactly one thing that particularly
fascinates me about storytellers is that
a single writer can make a bestseller
and go on to write six more consistently
popular books that don't drop any hype
or group consensus and then the second
that that writer starts again from the
ground up they don't reach that level at
all you'd think that the same writer
making something new would result in a
similar success but it doesn't as if a
rightist Achilles doesn't carry over it
can't just be potluck it's no lottery
but there does seem to be something
incredibly fragile about storytellers
when they change the world the cause of
this I think is something I've been
calling concept potential it means that
in the case of JK Rowling if you're
starting concept is a magical world
you're naturally going to be able to
make a lot of creative stuff because the
logic allows for it but if making
creative stuff is your forte and you had
the bright idea set your world they're
totally not magical world even though
you're naturally a creative writer
you'll find yourself being unable to
find excuses for it it's this single
concept that demonstrates why the fight
in the Department of mysteries in the
order of the Phoenix is the best fight
scene in Harry Potter and why Avada
Kedavra is a stupid [ __ ] spell just
like look at the duel between Voldemort
and tumbled Wars Dumbledore mobilizes
statues creates flame whips cocoons his
opponent a bowl of water he'll so
defensively teleports and uses Forks and
the statues the shields of all the more
in terms of defense turns a fire whip
into a snake and makes a shiny silver
shield but in terms of offense but what
does he do three blasts creme blasts
three blocks it's
all Avada Kedavra first series it
defines itself like creativity it's kind
of weird that the majority of the fights
in Harry Potter have the bad guys just
shoot this greenery yeah that one's in
almost any given situation and I mean
why wouldn't they it's a spell that
[ __ ] kills people you might as well
just giving them guns
that's this what it is it's a gun it's
literally a gun it's fast it's effective
it's the strongest thing you have and
because of that Rowling conjures
naturally right creative stuff now she
must actively find an excuse for
anything other than Avada Kedavra now
the curse has restrictions yes but they
boil down to you can't use it unless
you're good at magic but that means you
can't just have none of the Death Eaters
using it it has to be most of them or
you're suggesting the majority of them
aren't skilled Wizards help even crab
uses it crabby crabby that's weird why
is it spell like pub in fact it actually
really looks like JK Rowling doesn't
quite know what to do about it either
before the last book at least because a
lot of the Death Eaters tend to send out
unspecified curses whereas the good guys
have things like stupefy Petrificus
Totalus
and expelling arms and I mean granted
there's a similar problem that exists
for good guys with spells incapacitate
people but it's nowhere near as
prevalent as things like Wingardium
Leviosa and Silencio still get uses like
in the battle for Hogwarts there's so
much cool [ __ ] there's a jinx that make
someone spike up like a sea urchin
Trelawney enchants crystal balls and
fires them at people neville fights with
[ __ ] pop plants in the space of one
page you get a spell at flatten stairs
and turns them into a slide a spell that
turns a tapestry to stone for a
blunt-force knockout and you get
McGonagall charging down a hallway
riding a stampeding herd of enchanted
desks and all of it comes from the good
side the bad guy is just used avada
kedavra and when they're feeling a
little spicy and they're all there try
not to kill Harry
they have crucio that's like it's like
it there are very few exceptions like
like crab uses in fire and Ron gets hit
by some kind of jinx that makes him go
all funny but thoroughly both of those
happen off-screen so maybe the context
was right to use something other than
Avada Kedavra who knows who knows the
only true exception is Dolokhov who uses
a jinx on neville that makes his legs go
crazy and a cool purple flame whip on
Hermione so assumedly he's the one death
you did who doesn't know how to use the
killing curse because I mean I mean [ __ ]
why wouldn't he if he used vada Kedavra
instead of the purple flame when
Hermione she would be dead and Harry
would fail his missions in the Deathly
Hallows Olaf is
be responsible for all the most downfall
by being a shitty ass wizard when you
first hear about it the killing car
seems scary and foreboding and that's
worthy of merit but its existence makes
the job of the right a much harder going
forward and you had a much better
potential without it like if you wanted
to have a curse that created sentient
hands on the location that it hit and it
tried to like strangle you or restrain
your one hand or even just try to grab
nearby structures and hold you in place
you're gonna do it because about a
Kedavra would just be better how about
some kind of like evil Petronas made of
water or mud that playfully sits on your
shoulder head but it sits over your
mouth so it starts to drown you and you
can't get rid of it what wonder people
just used like
obliviate in fights to stop harry
casting expelliarmus because because
it's all inconsequential when you can
just kill them with a single spell but
this is what i mean a poor concept can
handicap a rider that said the opposite
is also true this is why the fight
inside the Department of mysteries is I
think the best fight in the whole series
you see where the spells of Harry Potter
can get a little stale sometimes the
setting of the fight doesn't have to
stay the same the decision to set this
fight in the Ministry of Magic
specifically in the Department of what
the [ __ ] is that it's all a crazy weird
magical [ __ ] that not even the ministry
understands was genius so firstly this
area gets teased and foreshadowed
throughout the year in Harry's dreams
and when you finally go there you get a
small tour as you travel through to the
prophecy room so you have like a chance
to like get a feel for the layout and
experience the mysteriousness and the
creativity of all these things in their
base form there's brain swimming around
in big green tanks a room with one
creepy old veiled archway in the centre
and anyone who's witness death seems to
be able to hear whispers and is lured to
it there's also a big time theme room
with our glasses and a bell jar that's
holding an egg that hatches into a bird
and goes through its entire lifespan
before returning to the egg and repeated
there's even a room at the start that
branches into a bunch of different rooms
and randomizes the doors so you get to
see even more cool parts even though the
destination isn't on that linear path
and then the destination room has like
glass balls stacked to the ceiling and
all of them hold prophecies so when they
smash you get these to see like these
white apparitions of the people who told
them so naturally when the fight breaks
out and all hell breaks loose they break
all of them a fight through a mist of
ghosts and glass and when the fight
spreads out all the rooms start playing
into it when the Shelf of our glasses
falls and smashes it repairs itself
immediately and then crashes back down
again
and then repeats when Ron gets jinx by
another off-screen bad guy spell he gets
into this deluded state thinks the
brains are funny and Accio charms to
himself at which point it exposed
tentacles of memories like film reels
and starts doing tangle fighters one
fighter dies by falling into the veil
where he simply bashes another my
personal favorite gets knocked into the
belt jaw and his head goes through its
full lifecycle and back to being a baby
and then repeats and he finally gets his
head out it's easy just a baby out of
Death Eater stumbling around the fight
and Hawaii stops herring from hunting
it's a count-out a baby and then it ends
up like becoming like a bumbling
distraction later it's really cool as a
side note I love how bloody and physical
this fight gets ones get broken and
launched across the room resulting in
mad scrambles never gets kicked in the
face and his bloodied nose stops him
from being able to cast spells and he
ends up just using his one-two just
literally poke a Death Eater in the eye
this fight is [ __ ] wild it felt like
what a real wizard fight would be I
think Harry Potter really built night
energy for its action scenes in this
book and it all became possible because
of this concepts potential it gave the
right of the logic to go crazy it goes
to show how much you can accomplish with
the right groundwork and on a larger
scale it shows how a good concept with
the right writer can set you up for an
entire franchise that said it also
scares me half to death
cuz it would also mean that with the
wrong concept you might just do me a
story from day one
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all right I go now but I hide them
specifically because they're a youtuber
being a big fan of for a while so I
could give him a shout-out most of my
stuff is anime related so maybe it's no
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check that one out