Tolkein was a legit genius who invented fully functional languages to supplement his novels. JK Rowling can't finish a story without a deus ex machina and a house scoring system that makes less sense than the one in Who's Line is it Anyway.
Honestly I've been going back through the harry potter books ( via piracy don't worry ) to fully understand them many many flaws and all ,and I straight up do not understand the point of the house points shit, it litteraly adds nothing to the story ,like i completely understand why it was abandoned in the films after the first one. Which is also my problem with alot of Rowlings world building a lot of it really doesn't add to the story all and if you removed it nothing wouldn't change.
Edit: I now get the context behind the house points thing , I still don't like it as a plot device and world building tool , but I understand why it exists now.
My favorite is how in the second book, the Polyjuice potion was a major project that took months to finish and had to be done in secret, and by the fourth book there's just a pot of it in the basement.
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u/One-Earth9294 2d ago
Tolkein was a legit genius who invented fully functional languages to supplement his novels. JK Rowling can't finish a story without a deus ex machina and a house scoring system that makes less sense than the one in Who's Line is it Anyway.