Why Harry Potter can blast Twilight into the Stratosphere

Why Harry Potter is better than Twilight

1.       Harry Potter and Twilight influence their fans in different ways. For example, Potterheads take care in what their decisions are, rather than what I’ve noticed in Twihards, who base decisions on materialistic needs. You can see that HP Fans read all sorts of other books, as long as they are interesting, creative, and original. Twilight Fans, to me, just seem to choose their books based on how attractive the characters are.

2.       Harry Potter can appeal to a wide variety of audiences. While Twilight is mainly read by teenagers, Harry Potter can be read by little kids, teenagers, and adults. Each time you read it, you get a better perception of the book, you understand it better, and it stops just being a story- you can apply lessons taught in the book to your day to day life.        However, Twilight remains the same, overemotional love story.

3.       The Harry Potter characters experience a wide variety of emotions. Some of them are good, and some of them are not. The Twilight characters only feel love and confusion.

4.       Harry Potter is not concentrated on a love triangle. HP Fans don’t care whether Hermione will ‘get’ Harry or Ron, because that’s not the point of the story.

5.       There is a well thought out plot in Harry Potter.  The characters in Harry Potter are complex, and have a set a morals that would like to follow, but, like many people, they don’t always succeed in doing so. The fact that the characters are unpredictable leads to excitement and suspense, rather than boredom.

6.       Fans of Harry Potter tend to be more politically active and are usually opposed to torture, because these are things that they have experienced through the books. As far as I can see, Twilight fans tend to be more materialistic, and will most likely choose a partner based on their physical attractiveness, rather than their personality.

7.       JKR teaches the readers of Harry Potter to appreciate linguistics. She incorporates Latin and French into her book, as well as clever details for the readers to find. For example, ‘Voldemort’ means “flight from death”.

8.       Harry Potter has inspiring female role models. The only argument for Bella that I can find is that she ‘can teach people to hold on to friendships’ and ‘keep their secrets.’ Characters like Hermione, Ginny, and Luna suffer from very real emotional struggles apart from being separated from their love (that too). They teach girls to be smart, be cool, and be yourself, without worrying what society thinks of you. The best part is that all these girls are very girly. Usually, when you see a ‘female rebel,’ they have adopted some sorts of masculinity. The girls in Harry Potter are not like that, yet they are very good role models.

9.       JK Rowling herself is an inspirational icon. First of all, she showed that a rags – to – riches story is possible. She went from being homeless to a billionaire. But she also demonstrates perseverance. ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’ was rejected nearly sixteen times before being published. Lastly, after being the first person to acquire more than a million dollars from writing books, she donated so much money to charity that she lost her billionaire ‘status’. What did Stephanie Meyer do again?

10.   Lastly, this is what I’ve noticed. Harry Potter fans tend to be much, much smarter than Twilight fans. And no, I’m not just saying this because I’m a Potterhead. I have evidence. Every single ‘Why Twilight is Better than Harry Potter’ I’ve come across is filled with rubbish from people who haven’t read the books, accusing JKR of ‘stealing’ the surname Black from Stephanie Meyer, blatantly disregarding the fact that Harry Potter was published years before Twilight. They say that ‘I didn’t even know who the author of Harry Potter was until five minutes ago so she can’t be that famous.’ Every single post I’ve come across is poorly written by people with screenames like ‘CullenBabe1202’ and ‘teamJac0B4EVA!’

Conclusion: If you can’t judge a book by its cover, judge a book by the people who read it. Harry Potter is clearly a win. 

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This article was titled: “3000 reasons why Twilight is better than Harry Potter” First of all, I only see 27 reasons. Second of all… what goes on in your boring little mind?

1-     the writing is better 
Yes, definitely. Everyone loves to read repetitive adjectives and entire chapters dedicated to how Bella chooses her shirt for the day.

2- the actors/actresses who film the movie are talented 

Apparently Kristen Stewarts’ jaw dropping ability to stare and grunt for hours on end is award winning material. So much more talented than, say, Emma Watson…

3- bella is a role model (she teaches people to hold on to their friendships and stuff and keep their secrets) 

Because every girl’s role model should be a seventeen year old that is madly in love with a pedophile. (Don’t forget: she can teach people to hold on to friendships and stuff)

4-it has a PLOT!! 

Hmmm…. my brain must have skimmed over that. Too bad a teenage wizard having to defeat the greatest Dark Wizard of all time isn’t a plot. Come on, JKR!

5-the scenes in the movies are exciting 

Yes, we all enjoy watching a pale boy and a girl with poor judgment stare at each other for multiple hours.

6- the effects are amazing 

Yeah, how did you make Edward so sparkly?

7-a story about a vampire,werewolf, and mortal beats a swinging wand boy and his enemy the beast 
Wait- who’s the beast? THIS ISN’T DISNEY, PEOPLE!

8- the actors and actresses are attached to their character and love them 

Shows how much they know.

9-the characters are not all good or all evil 

So, what you’re saying is that all the characters in Harry Potter are good/evil…?

10-the evil people are villians for a reason like the newborn army in eclipse who almost killed the whole city of seattle or the volturi (they are not evil evil they have some good in them) 

Okay, I have no idea what you are trying to say here but I think that Voldemort gave up his nose for a reason.

11-the characters in twilight are nice and have a great personality and they are hot and cool too (they are lovable for that) 

Wow! They’re hot and cool at the same time?

12-the cover of the books are drawn beautifully 

And while we’re all stuck here with covers featuring ACTUAL scenes from the book, you can have fun with your apple.

13-the posters of the movie looks verrrry cool 

And….ditto.

14- creative and great ideas of the vampire form 

I don’t get it. They look the same… but I’m sure they pale in comparison to the Harry Potter characters… ;)

15- you can make your own stories out of the chapters of twilight 
(you can make stories out of harry potter too but twilight turns out better than harry potter) 

Are you talking about fanfictions? Well, then I’m afraid that the WORLD DOESN’T CARE ABOUT WHO BELLA ENDS UP WITH.

16- the phrase twi-hard is cool 

Okay, I have  to give points there… Potterhead isn’t as cool sounding. Or hot. Or lukewarm. Whatever.

17-the mashup name renesmee is so creative 

…I have no comment  for this as I don’t have the slightest idea of what you are talking about.

18- Meyer made the werewolves and vampire unite even though they are enemies to each other 

How do you be enemies to each other?

19-the book is an international bestseller and an award winning book too (chosen by book critiques) 
Oh yes, I’m sorry Harry Potter is no ‘bestseller’.

20-there are lessons you can learn from twilight (the thing u can learn from harry potter is how to do a spell on your friend so he can help u) 
Really? What ‘lessons’ do you speak of? Oh, right- ‘How to chase after a Man’ is such a valuable lesson compared to, say, loyalty, friendship, and wisdom…

 
21-the emotions are deep in twilight and is a wide imaginative world (unlike wand boy) 

Wide, imaginative world? All I see is Eating Utensils, Washington. (Forks, Spoons, who knows?) While Wand Boy, as you so eloquently suggested, is not imaginative, nor emotionally complex.

22- she replaces small simple words to long big words for people to be more educated not use simple words everyone can understand 
Avada kedavara, filthy mudblood.

23-twilight has a theme of a magical and imaginative world 

Twilight- because wizards are in no way magical.

24- twilight is read by a massive audience 

And that’s why the world has Twilight Theme Parks and a million dollar franchise.

25-the fight scenes are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo amazing and you feel the fight by someway 
Oh yes, much better that a teenage boy and a noseless man pointing sticks at each other and sprouting gibberish.

26-the twilight quotes are really nice written and you feel the creativity in them 

“If you want to know what a man is like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals”

“The truth…it is a beautiful and terrible thing, and therefore must be treated with great caution”

VS.

“Don't be self-conscious, if I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it.” 

Sooooo ‘nice written’

27-Meyer left clues for you to know the identity of each and every character 

Bella’s the stupid one, Edward’s the pale one, and Jacob is the buff one.

Crushes and Dating (In Middle School)

On the first note.

It's okay, everybody gets one at some point or another.

On the second.

You have better stuff to do.

On the first note.

See, Asian parents like mine have that whole arranged marriage kerfuffle on that side...so they just think that crushing on people is, like, totally unnecessary and a waste of time. And I totally agree. The thing that they don't understand is that... well, there's not really much you can do about it.

So,  yeah, you hide it from your parents because they won't understand and sometimes they find out and it's awkward because HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THIS TO THEM!!!

It's like explaining Fairy Tales to a Wizard.

Hermionie: And he climbed her hair to the castle tower.
Ron: Wait- he just- climbed it? Like- no magic, just a muggle strolling along and just climbs her hair?
Hermionie: Oh for goodness' sakes, Ron!
Ron: I don't get it!

Yeah... I don't get it either, Ron.

Anyway, mostly everybody has a crush on someone by the time they get to high school, and, if they have not, I'm jealous.

On the other hand...

Dating.

GOD DON'T YOU HAVE ANYTHING BETTER TO DO THAN MAKE OUT WITH SOMEONE BEHIND A STAIRCASE!?!?

Okay, yes, I know that that's not what always happens, but... still.

I guess.... that I may have to admit... yes, the kind of relationship where the couple just talks and occasionally holds hands is... well.... tolerable, but...

Seriously?

First of all, if you're in Middle School, you're not emotionally ready to go through the ups and downs of a tumultuous relationship. And then... there are the rumors, the name calling, the, well, yeah.

That's all I got.

Plus, it's annoying for your friends when they can't talk to you because they are going to be the awkward third wheel.

*cough*

God, I hate that. It's sooooo annoying!!!!!

Anyway...

MESSAGE: Please don't date until you're in High School

Toodles!

Life Isn't Freaking FAIR

So today I was mulling over the underlying unfairness of my life.

So at first I was like: I hate myself, I'm an idiot, I'm never going to succeed.

And then I was like, Man, shut the heck up. You had plenty of chances to succeed.

And then I was like, Wow, I'm actually really lucky. Not just because I'm at least decently smart and was born into a middle class family in one of the richest countries in the world, but also because, well, I've never fell off a cliff. Simple things: I've never broken a bone, never had a life threatening illness. A bit more complicated things like the person I do know with a chronic illness is nearly cured. Other things, that I was born into a family following an extremely tolerant religion. That I've never been sucked up by a tornado.

Yeah. That's deep thinking right there.

But see, the point is, there are so many things that we overlook because we're so wrapped up in our own measly lives. So if you're going to come complaining to me that life is unfair, I'm going to ask you if you've ever been trapped in a mudslide.

The End.

ON MIDDLE SCHOOL DRAMA

This one isn't a video yet...
YET

AHHH
I hate middle school!

It's full of people who act like kids, look like teenagers, but want to be treated like adults.
?

While elementary school is for emotional preparedness and high school is for, well, the rest of your life, middle school is just a buffer zone where they stick kids in order to keep them somewhere for eight hours a day.

TYPES OF KIDS AT MIDDLE SCHOOL WITH HARRY POTTER

THE GRYFFINDORS: The 'jocks'. Those groups of guys that act all swag and stuff and everyone hates them but they have nice faces so nobody hates them... except- the Ravenclaws. (Oh yeah, and the Slytherins, but they hate everybody)

THE RAVENCLAWS: The 'nerds'. They don't really involve with anyone outside their groups but are tolerated by everyone. Teacher's pets. Or, teachers hate them because they're exceptionally annoying and know everything already. Not to shabby.

THE HUFFLEPUFFS: The 'sixth graders'. They look more like elementary schoolers than anything else. Also- very fragile and whiny, usually rather smart. Can count on them though, especially if you're older than them.

THE SLYTHERINS: The 'Gangsters'. Those people who act all cool and stuff and throw parties and have fights. They don't know where they're going. They rotating their lives around an inclined plane.

DIVERGENT: Oh wait, that's not from Harry Potter... eh, I have no qualms in combining fandoms.

DIVERGENT: Those people who intermingle with all the groups, and have a couple of friends in each group. They usually don't get along with the Gryffindors, though.

SO, comment you're status in Post- Dystopian Hogwarts swiftly!

Message: Shut the eff up about your middle school problems. Nobody wants to hear it.

Which is why this is more about the types of people, rather than the actual drama stuff.

The End

The Difference Between Racism and Stereotyping

The title is pretty much self explanatory.

*On a more interesting note, I was wearing a unicorn shirt while making this video.*

You know what I hate? When someone mentions a color and this idiot who wants to act all smart goes:

RACIST!!!

THAT'S NOT RACIST.
THAT'S NOT EVEN STEREOTYPING.
THAT'S JUST RETARDED.
YOU NEED TO SHUT UP.

You want to know who's racist? ADOLF FREAKING HITLER WAS RACIST.
He was anti Semitic.

(On another interesting note, the SAT was originally created as an aptitude test to flush out Jewish people from Ivy League schools because they only wanted naturally smart people and not hard workers like Jews)

THAT'S RACIST.

Stereotyping, on the other hand, is taking a trait of the majority of people of a certain ethnicity and classifying everyone of that ethnicity under that trait.

Like: Asians are smart.
Yes, most Asians are smart. That's stereotyping. However, if someone said 'All Asians are devils and should be killed' they would be racist.

LIST OF COMMON STEREOTYPES

- Asians are smart
-Asians are racist
-Asians are bad drivers
-Black people are gangsters
-Black people always carry around guns
-Black People have scary names
-Hispanics all have extremely long names
-Hispanics eat tacos and burritos for every meal of the day
-Hispanics are all illegal immigrants
-White people love Starbucks
-White people are spoiled
-White people are rich

Yeah.... that's world suck right there.

Oh, for more funny videos about stereotypes go to youtube and look at the FungBros, Kevjumba, and/or Geekslayer.

ALSO:
For that one kid who yells RACIST when someone asks for a purple colored pencil:

WHAT THE HECK IS PURPLE?
The child of a Native American and a Smurf?
......

Message:

Black, White, Brown.... they're all just describing words.
Just... don't be racist, and please don't be that annoying kid who thinks that they're funny.

THE ASIAN B BALLER

Okay, so this is from one of my videos.

It was originally called 'The Indian B Baller,' but I lumped all together.

Um, yeah.

So a couple of weeks ago I was in gym.

(I'm too nerdy for gym, but it's required... so yeah.)

We had to play basketball. (At this point in the video I showed everyone how bad my aim was using a pair of headphones and a crumpled up sheet of paper.) The point is, my aim is really bad. 

We had to do a warm - up where we dribbled to the end of the court, had three shots at a layup, then dribbled back. So, I figured I would dribble, completely be rotated around an inclined plane for the layup, and dribble back. 

So I did. 

And then my stupid shoe, which is half a size to big, came off. 

And I fell on my face...

Then, I knew I was going to mess up the layup so I didn't even try.

AND I GOT IT IN!!!

My FIRST layup ever.

Like A Boss.

So... the coach was like 'OH, SHE MADE IT! SHE ACTUALLY MADE IT!' you know, because he figured, if this kid can't even dribble, how can she make a layup?

And I was a bit insulted, but then I realized, I didn't even think I could make a layup!

So, yeah... message:

'Believe that you can do something, and if you can't, watch someone do it and then copy them exactly'

The End.

Introduction: What the Heck is this Blog About?

Ahhhh.... good question.

Does it really matter? 

Oh wait- It does.

AND, I'm not trying to sound cool or anything, but I don't want to do this. I don't want to slave away at a blog every week if nobody is going to read it. Heck, I'd rather spend my time reading Harry Potter or watching Sherlock. 

BUT the primary purpose of me doing this is about leaving behind something for me. One day, when I'm old and senile, I'm going to go to an antique store with WiFi and search this blog up and laugh over all the stupid things that happened to me. In fact, I'd probably laugh so hard I'd kneel over and die. So maybe that's a bad idea. 

NO, seriously. I use the term 'nerd' lightly. I don't like to study, I'm not extremely smart. But there is one thing that classify all nerds.

NERDS LIKE TO KNOW THINGS.

Nerds like to demonstrate our integral smartness. Everything else is just a side effect- the studying, the Dr. Who/ Sherlock watching, the John/Hank Green loving... it's all just a side effect of wanting to know things. I'm a 'supposed' nerd because people call me nerd... but I like to know things... I just don't have integral smartness.

SURE, I'm smart, but where I go to school, smart doesn't cut it.

I also happen to be extremely lazy.

Give me a math assignment on something really boring, and it will take hours prodding to get me to do it.

However, leave me in a room with a AP World History textbook, and I will have it nearly memorized in an hour or so.

PS: Both of those examples are true.

...Yeah...

Well, basically I'm just going to put stupid stuff that happens to me, basically my videos in print because you can't see my videos because my parents... well... are parents. 

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