Harry Potter being read fanatically by adults was my first red flag that most people are thick.
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Some adults, well into adulthood, are wayyy too into harry potter.
I meant when I was a child reading them, and you look across middle aisle on the bus, and some dopey prick in his 40's is reading it.
Read your age man ffs.
I read them recently to my eldest and was surprised at how bad they are - the first couple had charm but as the series went on the books became more bloated and loaded with histrionics and tropes (cribbed from Star Wars) regarding good vs evil but rewritten by a moral relativist who lacks a clear conception of what such terms even mean.
Anyone that mentions which house they belong to is automatically sus