The Harry Potter books/movies are better than Twilight (Stephanie Meyer)

Thanks. I stand by my argument that Twilight is more "you". Twilight's first-person perspective allows a reader to easily imagine that she (assuming most readers are girls) is in Bella's place as the lucky girl who gets the dream boyfriend. I don't understand why the author claims she tells it "after she experiences it", but even if that, the story moves as if events happen in the moment. As to Harry Potter, you're watching because of the plot, descriptions, and 3rd person viewpoint. You're not made to associate to one character so you don't feel like you're doing anything. I consent that Harry Potter can be emotional. But it doesn't have the addictive quality that Twilight does due to its focus on plot events. Twilight does not make the reader feel heroic, it makes the reader feel luckity in love. By "As a novel, Harry Potter can do better at letting readers feel the ups, downs, and struggles of the main character more.", I actually meant that Harry Potter didn't do well enough. I looked at my wall and it was a nice wall, but Bella had much more emotion. Kristen Stewart does not show Bella's emotion on her face, but in her actions and the books Bella goes through depression and drops everything for Edward, which is very emotional. Bella's personality is that she's lovesick, she doesn't have a path in life, and she's willing to give up everything for Edward. It's not a unique personality, but it fits the purpose of the book to find a lonely girl a hot boyfriend. Wikipedia says "Edward is described in the book as being charming, polite, determined, and very stubborn." and that "Bella describes Jacob as a "happy person" who extends this happiness to the people around him. As Jacob's character emerges in New Moon, he is shown to be cheery, passionate, and adventurous, but hot-headed." These characters now each have 4-5 personality traits, yay. They are not as completely characterized as JK Rowling's characters are, but again they fulfill their purpose: to make Bella feel lucky and loved. JK Rowlings's characters are not perfectly-made but made to fit the purpose as well. Her good characters are completely good while her bad guys are completely evil, which is unrealistic. As to the argument that Twilight spreads the message to give everything up for love, well it does. But the dominant message that it spreads is that lonely girls can get great guys. And before they do, Twilight lets them live their dream relationship. Twilight does its purpose well so can be considered equal to Harry Potter, not inferior. Twilight was copied while Harry Potter wasn't because Twilight's plot was more captivating. After Harry Potter came out, Authors had the oppurtunity to all write about worlds of magical spells and they wouldn't have been stealing, and then there would have been a magic spells craze. But there wasn't, and Twilight's plot was the one that made the huge impact. Right after Twilight, vampires(and werewolves) became popular characters when they weren't before. As to awards, you cited awards that Harry Potter gained just last year and maybe this year. Harry Potter has had nearly twice as much time as Twilight to gain awards so this is not a fair comparison. Also, Harry Potter goes through 9 books while Twilight goes though only 3, so Harry Potter has more room for awards. Perhaps the biggest complaint I would like to state is that the Harry Potter series is way to Harry Potter-y. Proof is that all the books are called Harry Potter and the author keeps talking about Harry Potter. You see in Twilight, Harry Potter isn't even brought up. See, Stephanie Meyer does a much better job of not talking about Harry Potter. Here are my sources. I have to say I've forgotten some of them though. -First 3 Harry Potter Books and Parts of the 4th -Sparknote Summarys for the rest of the Harry Potter Books -All Three Twilight Books -Breaking Dawn Part 2 the Movie