Twilight vs Harry Potter …. J.K.Rowling vs Stephenie Meyer …. The debate is never ending and the topic is mostly confined to “Whether Twilight is as good as Harry Potter and not less “. I spent most part of my Diwali holidays completing the Twilight series . The Twilight followed by The New Moon , The Eclipse , The Breaking Dawn and the leaked draft of The Midnight Sun .
And after doing so , I can safely participate in the debate now and can very confidently conclude that Stephenie Meyer is not as good , infact not anywhere even close to J.K.Rowling . There are only three categories of people , who I suppose will disagree with me .
First , those who are a die hard fan of Romance will surely stand against Potter . Twilight is a lot more about romance and relationships rather than Vampires or Werewolves .
Secondly , those who have read “Twilight” and not “Harry Potter” will of course go with Meyer .
Third category include people ( and there are a lot of them ) who think Harry Potter is just for kids .
The Potter series was completely in another league compared to Twilight . J.K.Rowling created a completely brand new world of magic , at each and every point one finds himself more and more intrigued to the plot . The way she used the mythological creatures , sketched the plot so efficiently , came up with a mind blowing magical game named Quidditch was just something Meyer was unable to even reach close to .
Twilight posed no competition to Harry Potter . How could someone even compare these two books . There was not even a single point in Potter series that I found myself bored and wished to take a break , but there were many stretches in Meyer’s book which left me droozing and wishing it to end as soon as possible ( especially when Bella and Edward spent pages just being in awe of each other ) .
I am not suggesting that Twilight is not worth reading . Its a fantastic series but not comparable to Harry Potter or Lord of The Rings .
Why is Rowling better than Meyer ????
- Twilight will appeal only to a certain section of society , others will find it very difficult to digest . Meyer hasn’t put in even a small percentage of imagination than what Rowling has put in . Although there are vampires and werewolves lurking around , there is nothing magical about it , its all just a romantic love story .
- Rowling has obviously put in a lot of hard work in creating the plot . Meyer had a fantastic idea , but somehow everything not sounded so fantastic on paper ( atleast not to me ) .
- Climax was what disappointed me a lot . Maybe it was difficult since the story is narrated from the point of view of Bella , but the climax could not have been more simple and less interesting . For instance , Edward going to Volturi in “New Moon” and coming out untouched without any twists and turns . Maybe thats the way love stories are meant to .
- Bella kept on narrating the unnatural angel like beauty of Edward for chapters and chapters and chapters . Sometimes I felt like skimming through the chapters .
- Twilight was way too predictable . The characters were not that strong . The characters of Edward Cullen and Jacob Black were good , but not excellent . Maybe everything was written in a bit of hurry .
Well no offense meant to Twilight fans . The series was good but not phenomenal like I heard it to be . Its so much overrated ( just like Ricky Ponting is 
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My Final Verdict : Wizards win . Vampires lose .
It was one of those hot june afternoons a few years back……Summer holidays were going on …. Projects were pending …who cares……. I was lazily surfing through different channels ….. bored of the summer holidays …… Suddenly a 60 feet monster with something like a deformed baseball bat in his hand zoomed in front of my eyes ….. He was on his way to destruction when one of those weird looking kids poked his stick into that monster’s nose …. and the other one muttered something like “Wingardium Laviosa” …. and the monster was a goner ……then there appeared few more of those crazy guys …. and one old lady amidst them muttered few words like “detention” and “points”……I was completely baffled…….It failed to extract interest out of me at the outset…….but I continued with the movie…….. Bit by bit I started feeling the inclination towards the movie and as I approached the last scene my point of view flipped 180 ……….. that was my first encounter with J K Rowling’s world of Witchcraft and Wizardy ……… Next day , in my school library I got my hands around the first book of Harry Potter’s series …. Philosopher’s Stone …. The magic in the book , platform number 9¾ , magical creatures , death eaters , friendship between ron , harry and hermione , quidditch and the Dark Lord appeared so real ….. Rowling knew how to play with the pen ….. The complete book was just magical ….. far amazing than the movie ….. Magic inside the book didn’t allow me to drift my eyes even for a moment……and by the time I read last word of last page I was already a part of the millions of people across the globe who were hypnotised by amazing world of
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