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10. Harry Potter is not afraid to face the dark side.

J.K. Rowling is not scared to startle the reader with something unexpected, like death. In Twilight, the bad guys always get what’s coming to them, like death or justice. Where’s the suspense?

Even in Harry Potter’s world full of magic and fantastical creatures, there is still vulnerability to the characters. The characters are open to more realistic conflict which sometimes ends in their untimely passing. I may have been saddened over the deaths of characters in Harry Potter and wish they had never happened… but at least I wasn’t bored.

9. J.K. Rowling > Stephanie Meyer

Both Rowling and Meyer have fine imaginations but, when it comes to the art of expression, Rowling trumps Meyer in every way possible. The characters in Harry Potter are exciting, smart, stupid, ridiculous, anxious, and awkward: a.k.a. realistic. They are age-appropriate and J.K. Rowling never tries to pass them off as flawless characters.

In Twilight, Meyer takes a condescending tone, like a loathsome school teacher on my bad side. Meyer makes it obvious that she really wants me to know that these characters are smarter than me without trying, prettier than me without wanting to be, and just better than me in every way possible. Thanks for the self-esteem boost, Steph! And, don’t forget the sparkles!

8. “Twilighters” claim that Twilight is better because it is an “Epic Love Story”

Okay, so it’s a love story. Big deal! I understand the argument: by the end of Breaking Dawn, we see just how much love there is between them because Bella allows Edward, for the first time, to see into her thoughts and he realizes no one has loved him as much as her, blah blah. That’s the most emotional scene in the entire series and it’s literally at the very end. Wow, what an original concept!

Bella and Edward are just flaky teenagers, but so many people are trying to pass it off as an epic love story. We may as well call them Heidi and Spencer! No? Tom and Katie? Miley and What’s-His-Face?

7. Harry Potter characters have depth.

It’s not as if we need to know everything about everybody. But with Twilight it isn’t so much that Meyer is leaving our imagination to cook up the mystery; it’s that there is no mystery.

Every Harry Potter character has a back story. We know a character’s personality, and know what is “like him” or “like her” and that is enough. At least Rowling gives us a creative mosaic to work with; Meyer’s is more like a brown paper bag – pretty drab. While reading Harry Potter, so much is left to our imagination that when we see it on the big screen, it’s almost a let down. It looks differently from how we imagined it in our mind. With Twilight, there is no let down because there is very little imagination involved in the first place.