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" It&amp;#039;s a little elitist to mock fans of the Harry Potter series. Whatever inspires kids (or adults, even) to lose themselves in a book for a week or two, to exercise their imagination, is a good thing. Right? You might as well make fun of a certain awkward adolescent and his obsession with Edgar Rice Burroughs&amp;#039;s pulpy Tarzan books. (They were great.) The following list from Toplessrobot.com doesn&amp;#039;t ridicule JK Rowling&amp;#039;s precious, insipid, poorly written tomes about cheeky wish fulfillment directly, rather, it calls out the terrible cultural side effects her series inspired. Fair enough. It&amp;#039;s one thing to love Star Trek, it&amp;#039;s another thing to learn how to speak Klingon. One special item on the list will boggle your mind: a specific form of public mental illness known as &amp;quot;fan fiction.&amp;quot; It is so loopy, so bizarre, and utterly original, while I&amp;#039;m personally terrified of the genre, I&amp;#039;m also in awe of it. It is the number one worst thing Harry Potter&amp;#039;s success has wrought, and it involves two words: &amp;quot;Pregnant Snape.&amp;quot; What the? The Six Worst Things Harry Potter&amp;#039;s Success Has Wrought [toplessrobot.com]   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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