Let's Compare

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So I was thinking, maybe we should compare Harry Potter to Twilight. I mean, that's what this is kind of about. But I mean more than debunking reasons one is better than the other. I will take a few points that are similar from both stories and compare.

1. Love
Twihards are always saying how Twilight has more love than Harry Potter. Let's look at the facts:

In Twilight, Edward is drawn to "plain" Bella Swan, along with 70% of the males at the high school. Bella decides it's cool that he likes watching her at night. Meanwhile, she also has feelings for Jacob.
In the end, the love triangle ended up useless because everyone knew she would end up with Edward anyway. Oh, and she has a creepy-ass demon child with Edward--oh, wait. It's actually a human-vampire hybrid.
And once she does have her demon spawn, what happens? Jacob imprints on her. He decides that this demon child is the girl he loves. Pedophile much?
Now, Twihards also say that Edward isn't abusive. Let's look at the facts. Here is a list of things that happen in an abusive relationship; signs that you are in an abusive relationship.
1. Jealousy (Edward feels jealous when she spends time with Jacob)
2. Controlling behaviour (brain fart! I'll insert when he was controlling when I remember)
3. Isolation (he keeps her from staying in touch with her friends)
These are the biggest three other than actual physical abuse (which did happen in Twilight).

In Harry Potter, the entire theme is love. Voldemort taunts Harry, asking him if love will save him, Dumbledore's precious idea that love beats everything. It shows how bad life can be without love (as shown by Voldemort's character).
There is familial love (the Weasley's, how Harry feels towards Hermione), motherly love (Lily sacrificing her life to save her son, Molly Weasley), romantic love (Ron and Hermione, Lupin and Tonks, Hagrid and Olympe, Bill and Fleur, Harry and Ginny, Lockhart and a mirror), even obsessive love, which is displayed in Bellatrix's love for Voldemort.
If you think Harry Potter has no love, think again. Harry Potter doesn't require four books to tell a love story. It requires one word, "always."

2. Robert Pattinson
Okay, I know, this is about the movies and an actor, but I'm having trouble thinking of similarities.

I'll just say this: Robert Pattinson said that he preferred the part of Cedric to the part of Edward. He'd rather be a character that gets killed off than Edward.

3. Werewolves
Both have werewolves!

In Twilight, the werewolves are not werewolves. In Harry Potter, they would be called animagi. However, different world, different story, and they did not pass any kind of test to turn into wolves. I'm going to call them shape shifters. Actually, shape shifters did play some roles in Native American mythology. But since I know next to nothing about Native American mythology, I'm going to stop right there. Basically, they ain't werewolves.

In Harry Potter, there are two prime examples of werewolves: Remus John Lupin, and Fenrir Grayback. J.K. Rowling is observant and respectful of werewolf stories set down much, much earlier. Someone can only be turned into a werewolf by the bite of a werewolf. A man has no power over changing into a werewolf or back into a human. He only changes into a werewolf on the full moon. He loses all human thought processes and reason when he transforms. These are all pretty much law if you have werewolves. Rowling follows all of this to the letter.

If you read this, let me know in the comments some other similarities. I want to compare and contrast.

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