re: #51 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I read the first book just to know what my kids were on about and enjoyed it along with the first film, lost interest in it all after that.

The more the movies go on, the less sense any of the characters make.

When Harry was 11, of course he’d be enchanted by all sorts of magical things.

But in the middle of the series, when he’s supposed to be 15 or so, why would any 15 year old boy just sit around a house all summer? At that age I was working a summer job. But somehow all the characters, not just Potter, just twiddle away their summers apparently not doing anything.

And why don’t some of the older children in his House at school travel? Don’t they go anywhere?

Sure, I know the books are written for juvenile readers, which is why the setting takes place in a school, as that is what children today know as “childhood”. Something which, though, would not have been true even 150 years ago, which, given the way the movie brings the stories to life, is about the period in which the magical world in the UK seems to be stuck - the Victorian era.

The entire Hogwarts undertaking comes off as extremely weird, in regards to how youth 11-18 years old act. It’s all too simple.