Harry Potter and Twilight

Being quite a big fan of the Harry Potter books myself, I always get extremely repulsed and annoyed when ignorant people begin to compare Harry Potter to Twilight. 

There are many many things wrong with this notion but I kinda wanna hear it from other people's perspective. Other fans of both books. Maybe there're poeple out there who are fans of both (how?? why??)? 

But anyway, I read the books just to see what the fuss was all about and my, oh my, a more terrible series of books I have never read. A sparkling vampire? Really? Why do people find it so compelling to watch a shiny vampire fight with a werewolf jock over a girl who has the emotional range of a teaspoon (see what I did there?)? 

I love reading dark romance novels and admit that as a teenager I used to be obsessed with vampires. Vampires, not fairies. And Edward Cullen will always be to me Cedric Diggory, the extrememly attractive - but non-sparkly - guy who was brutally murdered by HE-WHO-MUST-NOT-BE-NAMED in the Triwizard Tournament. Meyer has created a breed of Vampires who wear cool clothes and drink animal blood. What has the world come to???

But onto serious matters. In 2012, it has become acceptable for teenage girls to go out, get drunk and sleep around. Not all of them, but a lot of them. Having role models like Bella Swan, who cries for months and then jumps off a cliff when her boyfriends leaves her isn't going to help them. In fact, if anything, it will cause them to commit suicide when their 'boyfriend' dumps them after a week. Girls are growing up way too quickly and realising that the fairytales we are told as kids are definitely nowhere near realistic.

What they need are strong, appealing, aspirational characters like Hermione Granger and Luna Lovegood who teach independence, intelligence and most importantly self-respect. The image above says it all.

 "Harry Potter is all about confronting fears, finding inner strength, and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend." ~ Stephen King

x Sashka Montez x