Times have changed and they continue on changing. Every year, we have new resolutions, new beliefs, new passions, new television series, new movies and the list goes on. What has caught my eye are the new books and how with those new books, the book preference has changed as well. People, specifically teenagers are now keener to read twilight and its entire Saga rather than the Harry potter series. Its actually shocking that very few now read Harry Potter and most of them are now more focused on reading twilight or chatting about it, blogging about it etc. Maybe its because Twilight is more modern compared to Harry potter. If we compare those two, one can conclude that both are based on myths and a wild imagination but what is even more obvious is that Harry Potter (even though based on fiction) has far more character and story in it compared to twilight. The Twilight saga is the story of a girl who is too weird to fit into the real world and thus is attracted to obviously the two people who do not belong to this world either, a vampire and a werewolf. Harry Potter Is the story of a boy who also doesn’t fit into the “real” world but he has a place in the magical world, he is a boy who lost his parents when he was still a baby and when he turned 11 he was recruited into Hogwarts to learn magic and the story goes on from there. In my opinion, why teenagers’ specifically teenage girls are so amazed by the twilight saga is because every teenage girl who has gone through puberty goes through the “I don’t belong here” phase and thus looks for someone to ease her alienation. It provides them with this security that it does not matter if they are alienated because In just a matter of days the “most breathtakingly beautiful” man will come and sweep them off their feet (maybe even literally, if he is a vampire).
Harry Potter, on the other hand is a journey, an adventure to be precise. One simply cannot relate to this story because even though magic may exist (as some may argue) but voldemort does not thus there is no point dreaming about it in a black robe hoping some snake like man will come one day and you will have to defeat him. Harry Potter is one of those books, which people should read not because they expect to learn a lesson from it, but because of the dynamics of the entire story. How it all comes together in the end, how the things we read in the first book make sense only after we read the last part, and not once does it bore the reader, not once does it make the reader want to just put the book down and sleep for a little while. I remember when I read Harry Potter, I was always so eager to know what happens next that i forgot to have a few meals. Where as when I was reading new moon (second book in the twilight saga) I actually skipped a few pages because I was so bored of reading Bella whine about how much pain she is in and how she has a hole in her heart and that she wants an adrenaline rush because it makes her see Edward (a case of schizophrenia, I think so).
I highly suggest to everyone that Harry potter is one the most amazing books ever written, and even though I recommend people read the twilight saga, I do not suggest one should try to relate to the story. It will drive you crazy if you start acting like Bella in hopes that a vampire will come to your rescue you and not bite you.
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