Harry Potter is better than the Twilight saga.

We seem to have a strong argument over whether the characters in Twilight are deliberately weak or not. I still withhold my opinion that Stephanie Meyer intended these characters to be weak, but I think it is only appropriate to agree to disagree on this point.You explain how Twilight is against promiscuity, and Harry Potter doesn't explore these messages. It's true, as Harry Potter is aimed at a younger fan base, it is not appropriate, and totally irrelevant to the story line. Although Harry Potter does not explore this single issue, it shouldn't be assumed that no issues are explored at all.Harry Potter explores the subject of racism and discriminationRacism- hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.[1]In Harry Potter, racism is deeply explored and is shown how it is evil, and overcoming it is good. The main villain, Lord Voldemort, is adminant that pure-blooded wizards are superior to half blooded wizards, derogitarily reffered to as "mud-bloods". The death eaters share this beleif, and the Order of the Phoenix aim to overpower Voldemort, with the aim of equality for all. Hermione, for example, is bullied for having muggle parents. Although she is not "pure blood", she is an amazing witch with outstanding magical skill, showing that no matter what race you are- you can be whoever you want to be. Harry Potter strongly promotes fighting racism.Harry Potter promotes undying loyalty to your friends, and how important friendship isThroughout the Harry Potter series, the importance of friendship is something which is really enforced. Not only to Ron, Harry and Hermione stick together due to their immense loyalty, but many other characters show strong frienship throughout the series. Neville Longbottom, for example, shows great responsibility and love for his friends when he attempts to protect them from danger in the Philosopher's Stone. As Albus Dumbledore said to him, "It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends." Through the series, Harry progressively creates new bonds with characters, and when he forms Dumbledore's Army his friends are adiment to stick with him until the very end. This shows a great deal of loyalty and really promotes that to the readers.Twilight on the other hand, does not promote loyalty and friendship at all, quite the opposite actually. Here are some examples:1. Bella is extremely rude and catty about nice people who try to be her friend. For example, she says ""Mike, who was taking on the qualities of a golden retriever" (30)" about a friendly guy who was just trying to befriend her, and she says, about Eric, ""a gangly boy with skin problems and hair as black as an oil slick . . . he looked like the overly helpful, chess club type""I understand if Bella said that about Mike, if he was being overly enthusiastic, but this is never written about in the book so it seems like Bella is just being over judgemental.2. Although she does develop several aquaintances in the first book, Bella pretty much abandons them as soon as she has a boyfriend! After hooking up with Edward, she makes little effort to maintain her friendships and only sits with them at lunch when Edward is not around! It seems like Meyer is unable of maintaining one frienship throughout the series. Although Bella and Alice do develop a friendship, if Edward and her broke up it seems very unlikely that either Bella or Alice would aim to maintain that relationship, and they were probably just friends because it was convenient.3. I move on to Jacob Black. When Bella moves to Forks, we find that she has been friends with Jacob Black for a while, although she is not very friendly towards him at all. Through the series, Bella only really starts paying attention to the guys when she's interested in something romantic! How selfish is that? It's like, frienships only matter if they have the potential of becoming romantic.Harry Potter shows us there is good and evil in all of usIn Twilight, there are just good guys and bad guys, but Harry Potter shows us that good and evil lives in all of us. As Sirius Black says, "We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are."Every good character has a dark side to them, and vice versa, but, as Sirius Black states, the good characters have chosen to act upon the good inside of them. This shows how indepth the characters are, and how not only do they fight a war with eachother but on many occasion they fight a war within themselves. Even Ron Weasley, Harry's most loyal friend, leaves him and Hermione in Deathly Hallows. This is realistic and painful for the reader, to see Ron acting on his dark side, but Ron's loyalty returns when he comes back and saves Harry's life.And yeah, maybe Harry Potter fails to inform teenagers about premarital sex, but it sure does promote some amazing messages that will always stay with the series' faithful readrs.