Harry Potter vs Twilight Article: From Twihard to Potterhead

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posted by RonGetYourWand

As toi can tell from my username, I am a huge Harry Potter fan. However, I wasn’t always. I used to be a Twihard (a twilight obsessed fan-girl). In fact I was one during the early stages of puberty, which is the age where most Twitards fall into the ‘romantic’ trap.

Here’s my story about how I went from ‘Twihard’ to ‘Indifferent’ to ‘Potterhead’:

I first read Twilight as a recommendation from a fellow member of the Teen Advisory Board of my library. I finished that book quickly and moved onto the next. The bibliothèque didn’t have Eclipse so I read it ‘Twilight, New Moon, Breaking Dawn, Eclipse.’ I went to the movies, had all the livres and even had a blanket and veste with Twilight plastered on it.

It didn’t really occur to me that maybe something was wrong with the series until I saw New Moon in theaters. I found myself leaving to go to the bathroom when Bella talked to the Cullens about being changed because I felt sick to my stomach. Even though I had read the livres it didn’t occur to me in my fan-girl haze how much Bella was willing to give up for the boy she shouldn’t even be with until I saw it on screen. At that time I was around thirteen and was very influenced par media, so I thought it was just a aléatoire feeling and eventually I went back to the movie.

A while after that I re-read a series I hadn’t since early sixth grade (before my Twilight Phase), that is Percy Jackson and the Olympians. While I read it I felt myself relating plus to Annabeth and her feelings towards Percy than I ever did for Bella and Edward. Again, I didn’t really tell people about my new found l’amour for Percy Jackson because everyone was into Twilight at my school and I was the first one in my grade to start lire it (Small School). I was worried about how people would see me so I acted like I still cared about Twilight, when really I didn’t care.

Then Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 came out and for the first time people I heard normally talk about Twilight seemed to forget it existed. Now I had watched the Harry Potter films when I was younger, my Friends and I would even run around in the backyard jouer la comédie like we were Hermione and Ginny while the deatheater (a black lab) chased after us, but I never read the books. But as the rendez-vous amoureux, date for the last movie approached two of my best Friends encouraged me to read the books, and I was hooked.

I’ve been a Potterhead ever since.

Some Reasons I prefer Harry Potter to Twilight:

J.K. Rowling is original. – Smeyer just retold a romance filled with Mary-Sues.
J.K. Rowling put a little of herself into her characters. – Smeyer IS Bella cygne (See Picture above).
J.K. Rowling made Sirus Black a shape shifter first. – Smeyer just changed the first name, added abs, ect.
J.K. Rowling made me think. – Smeyer wants a man to think for me.
J.K. Rowling made us feel like we could be the DA. – Smeyer shows toi need to be pretty to be a Cullen.
J.K. Rowling gave me magic. – Smeyer gave me a guide to tell if someone is stalking you.
J.K. Rowling created Quidditch. – Smeyer ruined baseball.

I’ve read fanfics better than Twilight.

Yours Always (Harry Potter fans understand the reference),

RonGetYourWand

PrincessVandal, Allies57 and 2 others like this

LadyEmzy16 OMG so makes sense!! Ur right...and I luv ur username Rongetyourwand LolzZ

cassie-1-2-3 Ovid made Proteus a shape shiftier first, Rowling just changed his name, added a criminal record, and facial hair, etc. (I'm just kidding, of course) I don't entirely understand this. Are you saying you only liked Twilight because of puberty? And it stopped when you were old enough and the puberty "stopped"? Your profile says you're only 15, I'm pretty sure you still have puberty.

PotterLambert93 great article! glad you learned that Twilight was a bad influence for women.

RonGetYourWand Reply to cassie-1-2-3: I mean that I had just started going through puberty and the prospect of hot characters made me intrested. I didn't really care about the plot and I didn't care about the quality (or lack of). I'm not blaming my fan-girl phase on puberty but I think the prospect of hot, handsome, characters falling in love with average people after about a week is more for pre-teens who have these new feelings. I'm not trying to sound like I blame it all on hormones, because it was my fault for following the crowed. Sorry, I didn't make it clear in the article. I'm not trying to make it seem like I'm not at the same level of maturing as I was then, just that the Twilight series is more targeted for people who don't understand the new emotions that come with puberty.

graystone Good one. Keep it up. :)

alexisn10 Good article. The same thing happened to me. I used to love Twilight when I was 13. I tried re-reading it when I was 16 and Bella just made me sick to my stomach along with a lot of other things. It wasn't until I read Emma by Jane Austen when I realized that Bella was a pathetic "rolemodel" for women.

youknowit101 Hm, I wonder why I like Twilight, I've never been a 13 year old girl facing the early stages of puberty.

RonGetYourWand You could like it for different reasons but these are mine for not liking Twilight. I'm talking about the main twilight fan-base which does consist of teenage girls or even 40 something twilight moms. I'm not saying those are the only fans.

Minervina Love your artical keep it up :-)