Recently, Harry Potter's IP is really hot, with mobile games and Universal Studios blessings, and the heat is not as high as it looks.
I have not read the original harry potter, watching its movie is already in college, originally with full of expectations, but then watched it is not very much in line with my taste, idle bored or one by one to finish, may have passed the time to believe in magic, after watching it feel good, I will forget a seven seven eight eight, so not a person with a Harry Potter complex.
The reason I'm not so cold about the Harry Potter films may be a little shallow, which is that it feels too dark in tone—while it can somehow set off the mystery and sophistication of the wizarding world, it makes me feel a little depressed and dull most of the time.
It's a little embarrassing to say, maybe I prefer to enter the magical world of some Japanese girl comics than the wizarding world of Harry Potter, or even the world of The Little Magic Fairy of Balala.
Of course, these works are not necessarily better than Harry Potter, but they are shiny and bright enough, just like the Moon Hare math test in "Sailor Moon" can only score 30 points, or a girl with a big nerve, but in the wizarding world, these are not important, because saving others is just a trigger event in the highlight moment of a dream, and the important thing is to be able to beautifully change costumes again and again in the process, incidentally encountering their own handsome tuxedo mask.
People who can do magic naturally have to bear some responsibilities. But most of these works have one of the cutest cores, and that is the dual identity, you can be an ordinary girl, but you can also be a powerful being who defeats evil and saves the world.
But all in all, mission doesn't seem to be as important, and you can abandon your magical girl identity and return to the real world as an ordinary person who lives a bland but colorful life. Therefore, there will be the magical girl of the year who retired to become a housewife, and the daughter is the setting of a new generation of magical girls.
There are many works in this form, which is "Hannah Montana" in reality, usually the well-behaved girls in school are also big stars, and in the fourth part, Hannah wants to return to the life of an ordinary girl, and finally returns, and the super popular singer quits the entertainment industry The storm lasts less than one or two episodes, and giving up seems to be such a light thing.
But Harry Potter has a sense of fatalism that cannot be escaped. His presence is intertwined with his mission, pushing him to move forward, which makes him extraordinary, but also a little sad - you see, even if his parents are so legendary and powerful people, but they are gone, what is the meaning. Perhaps it was better to be born into a muggle family with able-bodied parents and not understand the existence of the wizarding world.
Harry Potter is very powerful, he is always able to complete achievements beyond his age, has one thrilling adventure after another, and he is not alone, there are teachers and classmates, and friends who have always accompanied him. But from birth, his extraordinary life doomed him to be a "savior" role. But it also makes him always shoulder a sense of mission and burden, which is too breathless for a child.
When I was very young, I read a children's book with a somewhat dreamy title called "The Moon Princess in the Castle", and the last page of the book was printed with jk Rowling's recommendation, which was probably to say that the book had a great influence on her. "Moon Princess in the Castle" actually tells the core story much like "Harry Potter", and it is also the story of a girl protagonist who bears responsibility because of the feud of the previous generation, and she is destined from the beginning to be the end of a long-entangled story. There are also gorgeous dresses, fantastic castles, delicious Western-style desserts, and a romantic moon that plays an important role. She is just as brave, tenacious, extraordinary, and unfortunate.
When I was a child, I saw more literary and artistic works in the magical world, and it was inevitable that I would look forward to entering the magical world, I always believed in the existence of magical girls in elementary school, and I would definitely be the one who was chosen, maybe one day when I got up, there would be two more guardian sweethearts (elves in the anime "Guardian Sweetheart") to tell me what sacred mission I had. Now living to the early twenties, the materialist view of history has been memorized a lot, and I am very sure that magical girls do not exist, and even if they do, they do not choose me to do it.
But ah, if I met me in elementary school, I would probably still let her see Harry Potter, when I would certainly not think about the deep and strange propositions of responsibility and fate, and could happily and unburdenedly believe in some strange gods, and believe that beautiful miracles would exist somewhere in this world.