Why was "Harry Potter" so popular in its previous life? On the one hand, it is true that the work itself has merit, but in fact?

When Rowling's first "Harry Potter" came out, it was actually like that, to put it bluntly, it was a victory for commercial marketing.

Is "Harry Potter" wonderful? This is undeniable, it is indeed a wonderful work, but is it really that powerful? In fact, it may not be.

Bestsellers or something, adult works, maybe the potential or something is easier to explode naturally, after all, adults know how to choose independently.

However, child-oriented works like "Harry Potter", at least the first few are child-oriented works, and the audience is first of all minors, children, and young age groups, these people, their own right to choose independently is still relatively low, and more often, they are influenced by adults.

Of course, it is undeniable that "Harry Potter" is indeed a good work, otherwise, even if there is capital to push it behind, it will be difficult to reach such heights.

In fact, the reason why "Harry Potter" was released as soon as it was released and the first chapter was released was so many people complained and criticized so much, for many reasons.

First, because the style of Mr. X's previous works is relatively mature, and the styles of "Harry Potter" and Mr. X's previous works are definitely very different.

That's why it has attracted so much scolding and questioning.

It can be said that "Harry Potter" is the first work that Mr. X has achieved lower than expected since his debut and became famous.

Even Mr. X's book fans were a little difficult to accept for a while.

Is the beginning of "Harry Potter" wonderful? For adults, it's really not exciting, and even a little naïve.

But this is not the case for children.

The world of children is naïve, and the views and priorities of adults on the same things are completely different from those of children.

For example, Shenzhou 7 explores space, and adults will think that this is the victory of Huaguo Aviation Technology and the pride of the country.

It's the triumph of technology, which is the focus of adults, and they're also concerned about the international impact of this and so on.

But in the eyes of children, what will they think of it?

The first thing they think of may be, wow, Shenzhou 7 ran to the moon, will they see Chang'e? Will they see Jade Rabbit?

Is Sister Chang'e pretty? Is the Jade Rabbit cute?

That's where the gap lies.

In Mr. X's previous works, the audience is basically adults, so the first thing they feel when they see "Harry Potter" at first glance is that they are discordant, full of disobedience.

The previous puzzles of "The Da Vinci Code" were so ingeniously designed, so many knowledge-rich implants, and the reasoning method of Sherlock Holmes in "Sherlock Holmes", the magic of the basic deduction method, and the unfathomable.

The creation of a terrifying atmosphere in "Midnight Bell" is even more miraculous, which makes people involuntarily feel furious when they watch it.

But what the hell is Harry Potter?

The whole story is a childish and outrageous metaphor, what hand is as big as a garbage can lid, what nose has been flattened twice, what foot is worn in a shoe like two little dolphins, it is simply inexplicable.

And who paid attention to "Harry Potter" in the first place, it was them, so it was not surprising that "Harry Potter" was criticized and questioned as soon as it appeared.

After all, the audience for "Harry Potter" is not them.

Yes, although it is said to be a work for all ages, in fact, the first two "Harry Potter" can really only be regarded as children's books.

Why did "Harry Potter" become a work of national applause in the previous life? Adults will affect children, and the same children will also affect adults.

And the span of the "Harry Potter" series is too long, long enough for those children who originally had no financial means to grow up and become the main consumer group.

When they don't have the financial ability, they will affect their parents, and when they have the financial ability, they will become the main consumer themselves.

Of course, "Harry Potter" is not all bad reviews, there are still a lot of good reviews.

British children's literature writer Dahl gave a very high evaluation of "Harry Potter" in his personal blog: "I don't understand why so many people say that "Harry Potter" is Mr. X's substandard work, in fact, everyone ignores that this is a children's work. ”

"Children's thinking is very different from that of adults, and although Harry Potter has only been serialized for more than 10,000 words, its potential can already be seen. ”

"A lot of people think that those metaphors are childish, but for children, they are just right, because they can easily have a very intuitive sense of the picture. ”

"For example, the metaphor of big hands, our adult works, it is likely to directly tell how big the size is, but it is too difficult for children to understand, but with the lid of the trash can as a metaphor, it is easy for children to understand, such as wearing the feet in the shoes like two dolphins, the same will also make children have a very intuitive feeling, that is, big, but not terrible, but will feel cute. ”

"Mr. X's penmanship is written from the perspective of children, of course, it is foreseeable that his penmanship will definitely make many original book fans a little difficult to adapt, but at the beginning, I don't think this work is for you to see. ”

"At least my children, after watching it, liked it very much. He would ask me, why couldn't Voldemort kill that little boy, what did the half-moon glasses look like, that lighter was so amazing, why did the street lights go out when it was lit?"

"Instead of being childish and ridiculous like we adults. ”

At the same time, the media from the UK are also aggrieved for Mr. X.

"Harry Potter" children read it and said it was good, it wasn't for adults, it's too normal to not adapt, I didn't expect Mr. X to know so much about the children's world, there are really not many writers with childlike innocence, and they must be supported. ”

"Mr. X must be a citizen of the British Empire, not to mention "Sherlock Holmes" before, a work like "Harry Potter" would be difficult to write if you didn't live in the British Empire since childhood. ”

"Harry Potter is full of childlike fun, with mysterious magic as embellishments, and it also does not abandon Mr. X's best job of creating suspense, which is definitely a rare and good work. ”

"I don't think there's anything naïve about the metaphors of Harry Potter, don't you think those metaphors are strange and cute? This is a book for children, and without those metaphors, do you want to show children the Midnight Bell?"