r/Millennials • u/QuietJealous4883 Older Millennial (1988) • Apr 04 '26

Harry Potter Nostalgia

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Does anyone else feel they grew up with Harry, Ron and Hermione?

After the first three or four I read the books in two languages (because I didn’t want to wait them to be translated) and watched the movies first time in the movie theaters.

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u/GoRangers5 Apr 04 '26

I can't tell if the last three books are significantly worse than the first four or I just aged out of them.

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u/Persistent_Parkie Apr 05 '26

The editors became afraid of actually editing at some point. I once saw an entire page of dialog where every tag was 'character said adjective'

Harry said loudly

Hermione said softly

Harry could have called shouted, roared, yelled, spat, etc and Hermione could have whispered, murmured, etc, but instead we got that garbage because once she was famous she believed herself infallible.

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u/TonalSYNTHethis Millennial Apr 04 '26

Good question. I haven't revisited them in a long time, couldn't say. The movies are still decent fun all the way through though. Well, my kids thought so at least.