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Twilight vs. Harry Potter

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Before I begin I would like to clarify that I'm not either a crazy Harry Potter fan or a Twihard. I've read both series and being completely honest I loved the Harry Potter series. But when I read the Twilight series I didn't think it was that good as people make it out to be. And when I heard someone say that Twilight is better than Harry Potter I felt inspired to make a comparison and show that Harry Potter far more superior than Twilight. For those who love Twilight to death
                      (YES THE TWIHARDS. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!)
And don't agree with what I wrote, its my opinion. I'm allowed to say what I believe just like you're allowed to express your love and devotion for Twilight. With that being said I hope you enjoy.

1- Descriptions:

In the Harry Potter books everything and everyone with rich detail. All characters of the series have their unique description of their personality and physical aspects. Making the readers actually care for the main characters and even some of the secondary characters and find themselves fascinated with the magical creatures and objects. On the other hand Twilight only centers on describing how perfectly handsome Edward is and neglects all other characters other than Bella and Edward, making the rest of the characters seem less important. It gets very annoying having to read 15+ pages on how Edward is handsome, smart, classy, etc. and how perfect and lovable is our clumsy heroine, Bella (ALL HAIL THE QUEEN OF MARY SUES). If you think about it, if you remove the parts on the book that Edward is being described Twilight would've been 130 pages max.

2- Love and Romance:

The argument I've heard from most Twilight fans is that Twilight is a love story and that's why it is superior to Harry Potter. I strongly disagree with that logic! The Harry Potter series may seem like it's just about adventures in a magical world of wizards and witches and it doesn't have the emphasis on love that Twilight has. TWILIGHT IS NOT ROMANTIC! There's nothing romantic about a guy who stalks you and watches you sleep. They don't portray romance in Twilight, only an unhealthy obsession. Also Edward and Bella "fell in love" based only on looks instead of actually having to get to know each other before having a relationship. In Harry Potter they make it clear that love is an important key of magic. And they explore many types of love like:

-The love between parents and their children, for example:
Lily and James with Harry. And also Molly and Arthur with Ginny, Ron, Fred, George, and the rest of their kids.

-The love between friends, for example:
Ron, Harry, and Hermione. And James, Remus, and Sirius. I'm not counting Peter because he's a traitor. Sorry if I spoiled it for anyone.

-Romance, for example:
Harry and Ginny, Hermione and Ron, Lily and James, etc.

And the romance in the Harry Potter series flows naturally and the characters don't easily fall in love and actually had to work so their relationships can work.

3- Plot:

This is a very easy subject. The plot in Harry Potter revolves around Harry as he develops through his adolescence, learning to overcome the problems that face him, magical, social and emotional, including ordinary teenage challenges such as friendships and exams, and the greater challenge of preparing himself for the confrontation with Lord Voldemort. If I'm not mistaken and please correct me if I'm wrong the only plot there was in Twilight was first to run away from a bad vampire named James, then later to save Edward from committing suicide and spend two more books on running away from James' girlfriend and having a "complicated" love triangle between Edward, Jacob, and Bella and to finish off this very interesting series of events wedding, having a baby, a not interesting fight with the apparently vampire kings (the Volturi) and then they stroll of into the sunset holding hands and singing Kumbaya. FASCINATING ISINT IT!

4- Villains:

In Harry Potter, Lord Voldemort is such an effective villain that the characters are so afraid to say his name and just call him You-Know-Who. He created two Wizarding Wars and caused millions of deaths. In Twilight, James was the 1st villain. The Cullen clan killed him right away. 2nd was his girlfriend Victoria. She spends 2 whole books trying to kill Bella. She sucks that bad at being a villain that she couldn't kill an accident-prone wreck that if you leave her a second without Edward she'll probably die on her own. Then there were the Volturi, they're not villains. They just do their jobs and then they go away. Yes, they're mean (Jane, mean ass bitch) but when they confronted the Cullens about Reneeseme they explained she's just a human/ vampire hybrid and they just went away.

5- Heroism:

In Harry Potter, all the characters risk their lives for the people they love and even for complete strangers. In Twilight, the characters they don't really care about others than each other. An example, in New Moon when they're taking humans to the Volturi so they could eat them Edward, Bella, and Alice just walk away and pretend its not happening. We all know that the Cullens don't agree with the whole drinking human blood idea, but did they do something to save them? Did they even say anything to stop them? I think not!

6- Heroines:

I'm only going to use the main heroine in Harry Potter, Hermione. In Harry Potter Hermione Granger is an intelligent girl that uses her knowledge and common sense either get good grades or helping her friends to save the wizarding world. And it is constantly remarked that the boys would be lost without her intelligence. And she also shows that even though she is a muggle born witch she is good enough or even better than some pure blood wizards. Even though at first she wasn't described as the most beautiful girl in Hogwarts (Buck teeth and bushy hair) she proved that she was beautiful when she fixed herself up for the Yule Ball, winning over Viktor Krum and Ron Weasley. She's independent, smart, and brave. She did get on my nerves in the first book (she was smart but to an annoying degree). But as the series kept going she became less annoying became one of my favorite characters. On the other hand Bella Swan is totally dependant of Edward for everything, when many people tell her to take it slow and not to make rash decision (The wedding and turning into a vampire) but it goes into one ear and comes out the other. She's described as perfect and popular even though she's a bitch to almost everyone, except for Edward of course. And as I previously said she's a freaking accident waiting to happen, all she does is bring danger to every one around her. Oh and who can forget about the Edward/ Jacob/ Bella love triangle. She teases the poor guys to the max. She loves Edward and just got engaged to him and what did she do afterwards, she went off and kissed Jacob in front of him. And when she turned down Jacob she felt so bad because she broke his heart and caused him a lot of pain and what did she do, she sent him an invitation to her wedding with the guy he hates. That's just adding insult to injury. And people say that Bella is a powerful heroine.

7- Names:

In Twilight they use fairly common names like:
-Edward
-Isabella
-Alice
-Charlie
-Jane
-James

And the rest of the characters. But then there's the case of Reneeseme Cullen. Stephanie Meyer wanted to give the half vampire half Mary Sue, I mean human, baby girl an uncommon and special name so she fused two names together. What the hell was she thinking? J.K. Rowling on the other hand, she had common names like:
-Harry
-James
-Lily
-Ron

But she gives unique names to characters using:
-Mythology (Remus, Narcissa…)
- Astrology (Sirius, Draco, Bellatrix, Scorpius…)
- Literature (Hermione, Lysander…)

Those are great and unique names for characters, it does not work when you mix and match names. Take Rowling's example Meyer.

I'm going to finish this comparison because if I continue comparing these two books I'll basicly waste my life in front of the computer. And I believe I made my point. Harry Potter is far more superior than Twilight.
Declaimer: The Twilight series and Harry Potter series belong to Stephanie Meyer and J.K Rowling respectively.
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Ilikechocolatedotcom's avatar
What I love about HP is that every time you reread it, you notice something else that foreshadowed a future event, or something that connects with something else that you never noticed before, it sort of feels like the plot is a big, complex web.

Twilight... when I read the series years ago, I was ten and I knew nothing about the book. I found it on my mum's dresser and decided to read it. At first it wasn't bad, but not good.
The ending was super cheesy, I mean, the beautiful immortal Bella and beautiful immortal Edward and their beautiful immortal lovechild live happily forever.
It seems stupid, especially because there was all this stuff about how she would die as soon as the baby was born, but then she was so special that she didn't, and then she thought the baby would die in only a few years, but then surprise surprise it's young forever.
And how the Cullens are so rich because Alice can predict some crap and they sell all this stuff that becomes popular. That is just a stupid air reason, it's just an excuse to make the family more perfect.
And then her stupid baby was just so amazing that everyone loved it instantly.
And how she was so desperate to be with Edward that she didn't think how becoming immortal would mean that she could never see her family or friends again because they would see she wasn't aging.
I could go on.