I've been having many heated discussions with my friends Shalayna and Grace about Harry Potter vs. Twilight. Shalayna says,"You can't compare the two", and Grace says,"They're completely different." But it got me thinking: Why do so many Harry Potter and Twilight fans compare the two books? And is one really better than the other?
Ever since the start of literature, people have been comparing books. Maybe we're just naturally judgmental? The great Harry Potter vs. Twilight debate started, in my opinion, with The Chronicles of Narnia. When the Chronicles of Narnia came out it was possibly the greatest fantasy series of the time. After that Lord of the Rings came out which was also a fantasy series. These two books were most likely compared to each other. Then many years later, Harry Potter, another fantasy series, came out. People began comparing that to the Chronicles of Narnia AND the Lord of the Rings. Then Twilight comes out, also a fantasy series and people begin to compare it to Harry Potter. It's a constant cycle and pretty soon another fantasy series will come out and it will be compared to Twilight.
Another reason why people compare the two books is because they both got the same reaction. Both books are immensely popular and have fans in almost every country. Although Twilight is mostly aimed at girls, it still had a similar reaction with Harry Potter. In my opinion, Harry Potter got an even bigger reaction because the series is unisex in a way. Harry Potter fans vary in gender, race, and age. When I used to go to the book openings there would be 4 year olds, teenagers, parents, even grandparents. But if you went to a Twilight book opening it would be mostly girls in the 14-24 range and maybe the occasional boy.
Even after all the arguing between me and my friends, we all have to agree that each series is good in it's own way. I'll have to admit that Twilight has it's moments and there are some days when I would rather read about love instead of action-packed wizarding adventure. Although in my opinion, Twilight's fandom will never be as big as the Harry Potter fandom. With series like these the fandom is one of the most important parts. We stayed up till midnight to get our hands on the books. When Twilight came along, we showed them how to do a book opening right. We started bands and created a whole new genre. Some of our bands started Twirock bands to help them along the way. We created fansites. They created fansites. We made T-shirts. They made T-shirts. We wrote fanfiction. They wrote fanfiction. We've got documentaries and conventions. They're probably planning on doing those next. In the end, I think that Harry Potter laid the foundation for this type of book fandom. I guess we just have to step aside and let Twilight have it's moment in the spotlight. They can build on our foundation and step aside for the next fantasy series. I'm guessing that the next big thing will be werewolves.
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There nothing you can compere to HP is awsome and it one more that 3 bilion dollards and im just taking about the 5th movie
And Twilight is completely deferent,
SO JUST STOP COMPERING THEM AND GET A LIFE THEY ARE COMPLETELY DIFEFERTN AND THER BOTH NOT THE SAME SO...yeah thats it.
PS:WHO EVER THINK THAT HP SUCKS...you know what sucks anything but HP and T.
I think theyre being compared because they're both big hits! Theyre awsome books... And Twilight has more fans than Harry Potter even though its not 'unisex'. Stephenie Mayer didnt write the book just for girls and I know a lot of boys you think Twilight is better than Harry Potter. Im gonna start babbling so Ill shut up now.
Verry true!
HARRY POTTERS THE BEST IN THE WORLD!!
The thing is, in every book, there's a story and we people are different from each other in many ways. And we have different tastes and likes in books.
I KNOW, I MENTIONED A LOT OF STUFF IN DESCRIBING HARRY POTTER AND I'M FANS OF BOTH CAUSE THEY'RE BOTH AMAZING BOOKS. REALLY GREAT ARTICLE TOO.
HARRY POTTER and TWILIGHT are BOTH great books!
SO QUIT SAYING BAD STUFF ABOUT THEM!
OR ELSE!
1:the magical
2:there funny
3:theres romance
but iagree people r judge mental just like the comments it would be a boring world if we all thought the same wouldnt it be?
I can`t compare them
whole dif stories.:D
~Emily :D
though HP fans are overreactive when people love twiight more than hp. (such as roanne) this kind of stuff gets twilighters (such as me) mad and irratated and, roanne, do you have proof that summit cant afford the exenses of twilight?!!! (this is what i mean with the lying!)
The only reason people compare HP and Twilight is because they've become so popular. And Renesemee717, I don't care if you're a Twilight fan or not, but you can't blame all that you said about the HP fans on the HP fans. Granted, if there's a fanbase about anything in the world, it has crazy immature fans that overreact. But in my opinion, the majority of HP aren't too bad. The stereotypical Twilight fan, however(dubbed 'Twihard'), are extremely immature and freak out if anyone says the slightest bad thing about their beloved series, and I'm sure they do the exact same things you say some HP fans do. In my opinion Twilight has the worst of the crazy immature fans and that the majority of the Twilight fans are Twihards. Don't believe me? Go to the Twilight spot and find someone who asks something that actually makes sense. Ex. "This part just isn't right to me..." Trying to bring some logic into the conversation? I would give you a link, I've been searching for 10 minutes for something like this. ALL of it has nothing to do with actually discussing the ins and outs of the books whatsoever. Or if it is, it's all the same exact stuff OVER AND OVER AND OVER again. So I apologize for that.
I don't care if people like Twilight, but people have been going way overboard with it and it's annoying me. I hate seeing Twilight stuff everywhere I turn because personally, I didn't and don't think Twilight is a good series at all. (If you want my reasons for that, here they are:http://www.fanpop.com/spots/harry-potteer-
Everyone has their own opinon; I'm simply expressing mine. I apologize for any offense taken by others. But if you simply don't like what I have to say, too bad. You can discuss it with me civilly, otherwise just please don't comment back. And the 'Twihard' thing is the Twilight fan stereotype; I know full well that not all Twilight fans are like this. I have several Twilight liking friends. But I'm saying the majority of the fanbase IS like this; Twilight almost seems brainwashing in a way, and no one actually thinks logically about it. They're just like "OMG EDWARDS HOT."
Carlisle bit Edward; he decided that turning Edward into an immortal being would be better than letting him die. He bit a handsome seventeen-year-old, so he could be like him. A seventeen-year-old BOY. And the Cullen-Hale family repeat high school. Over and over again. Have they considered getting a life of some kind and just not go to school because they're already intelligent enough as it is? Or does the government keep tabs on them? See, there are just so many plot holes, I really don't know where to start ...
Whereas in Harry Potter, there is a fine line between the 'real world' and 'Harry's world', there is a magical government in itself, wizards usually hide themselves from Muggles, and let's not even get started on the depth of the story line. :)
I tried reading Twilight from a book borrowed from a library and it was boring boring boring. I would've fallen asleep reading it. To me, all that's a pewney bit interesting is when the car nearly crashed into Bella but Edward saved her.
It's still pretty dumb to even attempt to compare Twilight to Harry Potter, because HP is a million times better.
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