AN: Wow this was supposed to be up ages ago… sorry! Normally I would make up some bullshit excuse, but to be completely honest I don't know why I haven't gotten around to it… I've had a blast so far, but I've also had a bunch going on (I do hate to make excuses for myself! It's true but I still should've updated) This could very easily be the last chapter I'm putting up for the next two weeks, as I'm volunteering with a kids camp next week and I'll most likely spend all my free time sleeping, and the week after that I'll be at a summer camp for myself where you pretty much get executed if your caught with electronics… I'll do my best to update but please don't be upset if I didn't. Thank you if you reviewed, favorited or alerted, it seriously made my day going online and seeing that people actually liked something I wrote! Let's get this show on the road! Alons-y (if anybody names Alonso read this please let me know so that I may say "Alons-y Alonso" in the next chapter… out of respect for the tenth doctor!)
11. The characters grow, and you can see that. My favorite example is Neville. If he disagreed with something a professor had said when he was a first year, would he stand up to them? No. But as we saw in The Deathly Hallows, in his seventh year he back talked the Carrows, and even had an unforgivable curse used on him for it, but did that stop him? He grew up from the cowardly, chubby little boy, who was a disgrace to his gran, into a brave, horcrux slaying man who even possibly altered the outcome of the battle of Hogwarts. But Twilight? There is almost no character development in anybody. Choices made by characters in the first book would have been made again if put in identical situations. The characters remain the same throughout the series.
12. There is way too much over exaggeration in Twilight. The Washington rain is a great example. And just keep in mind, this is all coming from a girl who actually lives about an hour away from Forks (Me and my friends plan running around the town with Gryffindor T-Shirts fairly soon ) and while we do get more then our fair share of rain, and we all have done our fair share of complaining, nobody, I repeat NOBODY complains as much as Bella. And contrary to popular belief, our summers do have *gasp* a bit of sun. It doesn't rain everyday and it was fairly obvious a few pages into the book that Stephenie Meyer not only has never been to Forks, but that she didn't even bother to do her research first.
13. J.K. Rowling was suffering from severe depression while writing the first few books (I'm not sure how her struggle is going at the moment) but she channeled those emotions to write an amazing literary piece. A lot of shit went down in her life. Hell, she was living in a car while writing the first book. She understood how to handle those feelings, and even symbolized them through the use of Dementors (who she has said multiple times represented her struggle)
Now let's look at Stephenie Meyer… I'm going to take a direct quote from her website now; this was after a book she had partly written called Midnight Sun (Twilight from Edwards's perspective) was leaked onto the internet:
I feel too sad about what has happened to continue working on Midnight Sun, and so it is on hold indefinitely.
J.K.R. was able to work through some terrible things that happenned to her, while Stephenie… well I'm sure you get the point.
14. Does anybody remember the sorting hats song of 1995 (The Order of the Pheonix)? Well if I may refresh your memory, that was the year the sorting hat delivered a warning to the four houses of Hogwarts…
"though condemned I am to split you
still I worry that it's wrong,
Though I must fulfill my duty
and must quarter every year
still I wonder whether sorting
may not bring the end I fear.
Oh, know the perils, read the signs,
the warning history shows,
for our Hogwarts is in danger
from external, deadly foes
And we must unite inside her
or we'll crumble from within
I have told you, I have warned you...
let the Sorting now begin."
For those of us who are not Hermione, it pretty much means that were stronger united then we are divided. Hmmm, does that by chance mean divided like the Twilight fans are with Team Edward and Team Jacob?
15. In Harry Potter we carry on seeing every character through to the end, their not just there when it's convenient for J.K. Rowling. It seems like characters like Jessica and Mike appear when it makes Stephanie's writing easier. In Harry Potter we saw Neville, Draco, Crabbe, Goyle, Seamus, Lavender, the Patil twins and loads more characters in every book.
16. In Harry Potter we see plenty of minorities: Asian (Cho Chang), Black (Dean Thomas), Homosexual (Dumbledore and Grindlewald), Obese (Umbitch, Slughorn, and more that I can't put my finger on right now), Indian (Patil twins) and even gingers! (Weasley's)
In Twilight there are hardly any minorities, it seems that all the characters are above average white kids (I know there were two Asians in the movies, and correct me if I'm mistaken but I believe both were white in the books)
17. There was a character named Rebecca Black in Twilight… I don't think this reason needs any elaboration.
18. Within a few chapters of the first book we knew what the over all goal of the series was: to defeat Moldyshorts. Bits and pieces of the battle were won in each book, and while each book had its own plot the entire series was leading up to that one duel. In fact J.K. Rowling wrote down the last chapter of the last book within hours of "The Sorcerer's Stone"
Now with Twilight it seems as if Meyer didn't even know how she wanted the series to end up until the she sat down to write "Breaking Dawn"
19. Harry Potter has no self-insert characters. Bella was definitely Stephenie's conceded view of herself, as is obvious as she has stated multiple times that Edward is her dream guy.
20. There are loads of flaws in Twilight. The biggest one that comes to mind is the fact that they keep records of people, and without showing the birth certificate stating that the Cullen's are way older then they look, none of them could be enrolled in school… also, I would hope that it's not so easy to fake a doctor's degree in Carlisle's case… if it was we would all be screwed.
Hopefully I'll put up some more reasons this weekend. I'll admit I'm not entirely happy with this section, and I feel as if I could do much better… Hopefully my points will be stronger in the future. Thank you for reading! And if you enjoyed it please let me know… kind reviews make my day 3
