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The Twilight Saga is an awesome book series, but the Harry Potter series is 4 times as good as the Twilight Saga. Harry Potter will always be my favorite book series. End of story. P.S. I like Eragon better than all three Twilight books. But the movie is gonna rock! So is Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince! Whoo hoo!

— Jackie    Jul 25, 10:08 AM    #

So, Harry Potter, Eragon and then Twilight.
Ashamed to admit it but I haven’t read Eldest yet either. I know, I know, I need to. It’s that whole “so many books so little time” thing.

Have you read the Bloody Jack series by L.A. Meyer? It’s historical fiction not fantasy. It hasn’t replaced HP as my all time favorite, but I’m enjoying it quite a bit.

And oh, I almost forgot, I really like the Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage. Behind on that one too. Oy, I need a week off from all responsibility so that I can just read, read, read.

— Shonica    Jul 26, 05:34 PM    #

WHAT IS WRONGE WITH YOU PEOPLE TWILIGHT SAGA IS WAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY BETTER THAN HARRY POTTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LLLLLLOOOOOOSSSSSSSEEEEEERRRRRSS!!!!!!!

— Lauren Paige Quiggle    Aug 9, 10:32 PM    #

I love twilight with a passion and im crazy over the series but HARRY POTTER WILL ALWAYS BE NUMBER 1

— Trisha    Aug 10, 09:51 PM    #

I hAVE NEVER READ THE TWILIGHT SAGA BUT I PLAN 2. HARRY POTTER DOES NOT NEED WORDS TO DESCRIBE IT.THATS HOW TOTALLEEEY AWSOME THEY ARE. BUT I THINK THAT THE CHARLE BONE BOOKS R WAY OVER LOOKED. THEY HAVE 2 BE A CONTENDER WITH HP ATLEAST ON MY STANDARDS

— Kyle Sauley (king of cheese poems) PEACE LOVE AND HARMONY    Aug 15, 11:25 PM    #

Definatly Harry, Harry Potters known world-wide when Twilght is mainly known in america

— Jack    Aug 18, 02:04 AM    #

The Charlie Bone books are awesome, but they will never replace Harry Potter!

— Jackie    Sep 5, 08:31 PM    #

I just don’t see how anything can replace HP. At least not in my world.

Oh Jackie, I’ve been reading the Mediator series by Meg Cabot. (I think you are the one who told me too.) It is very good. Totally into it. Can’t wait to get my hands on the fifth one. Cause wouldn’t you know, we’ve got the sixth one but the fifth one is checked out. OY

And there’s another series that I’ve just found. It is by Hilary McKay; the first one is Saffy’s Angel. It’s about a quirky English family. All the kids are named after names on the color chart. Cadmium, Indigo, Rose. Saffron is a color of yellow but her name isn’t on the color chart. Hmmm…

If you like to listen to books on tape, Saffy’s Angel is really good. The reader is an English actress named Julia Sawalha and she’s brilliant. And Sawalha is just fun to say.

Silly fact… Julia Sawalha plays a character named Saffron on the British sitcom Absolutely Fabulous. I’m a huge fan. So huge in fact that Veronica’s middle name is Saffron. She’s not actually allowed to watch that show until she’s sixteen or so, but…

Anyhoo… just finished Indigo’s Star (the second book) need to get the next one, Permanent Rose.

ttfn
p.s. Gonna have to read Charlie Bone. Once again,so many books… I could read em all too if weren’t for all these grown up responsibilities.

— Shonica    Sep 7, 03:05 PM    #

Sorry..Twilight will never ever replace Harry Potter but it is right up there with HP…But i mean cmon..Wizards and Witches are way better then Vampires and Werewolfs!

— Wynter    Oct 8, 10:16 AM    #

Have to admit that I still haven’t read Twilight. BUT I’m rereading HP to prepare for the trivia contest we are having in two weeks. Just finished Sorcerer’s Stone for the billionth time and I was still totally sucked in, didn’t want to put it down, read every word of every sentence. There aren’t too many books that I can say that about.

— Shonica    Oct 12, 04:54 PM    #

There’s enough room in my world for Vampires AND Wizards!

I too am a huge HP fan, dressed up for releases and all that nonsense. The top of my bookshelf contains what my friends call the shrine to Harry Potter. I never thought another series could ever compare.

Then I read Twilight. And of three things I was absolutely certain. 1- My aversion to all vampire books was no longer maintainable, 2- after the first chapter I thirsted for more, and 3- the top of my bookshelf would soon become home to two shrines.

I have read the Twilight series most recently (finished Breaking Dawn two days ago, started Twilight a week before that) so it is freshest in my mind, and the series I am most obsessing over. I believe before the HP vs. Twilight fight can be resolved, in my mind at least, I will need more time and perspective. It would help if I could stop dreaming about fictional teenage vampire too…

I think that in the matter of book settings HP wins, hands-down. The world that Rowling has created is simply far superior. But the characters? A much tougher call on my part. I’m nearly 30, as are the cretins (my friends) who forced me to read this “silly vampire” series. We were all in love with Edward by the end of the third book, or sooner (seems I was the holdout). The relationships in Twilight are simply more compelling, more fully flushed out.

They are both spectacular and engrossing, and have lost me many hours of sleep, leading me to wish I either 1- didn’t need sleep and had lots of free time, or 2- got permission from McGonagall to have use of a time-turner.

— Christine    Oct 18, 02:42 AM    #

I LOVE the twilight series, I finished all four books this week. They are actually AMAZING, I’m going to have to read them all again sometime very soon. I really didn’t think I would like the Twilight books much after reading the blurb, but me and my friend love to read the same sorts of books, so I trusted her recommendation and was not at all disappointed. I LOVED every minute spent reading them. If you think you wont like them, please don’t judge the book by it’s cover, literally, I’m so glad I didn’t. But for me, the Harry Potter series will always be my all time favourite series of books, as they were the ones that first got me hooked on reading. Before Harry Potter I wouldn’t read at all, I owe J.K. Rowling so much for introducing me to the fabulous world of books out there. They were the first books I ever loved.

Though HP will always be my personal favourite I would definitely recommend either of the two series’ to anyone that asked, as they are both BRILLIANT, and are the kind of absolutely GENIUS books that would keep you reading way into the night.

— Rachel    Oct 25, 05:31 PM    #

Look. The reality is that both og them are amzaingg.I have read all Harry Potter books and all Twilight books.

I really think that we shouldn’t compare. Twiloght is full of romance, action, and it makes you fall in love with edward and the cullens family too.
But also harry potter is full of action and with full wide imagination.
Both arthurs i think are genious! How they can make so many people die to read them and to watch the movies. So try not to compare them both to each other beacause that is just hard to do.
~Karla.

— Karla    Nov 4, 01:47 PM    #

I like what Christine said,

“There’s enough room in my world for Vampires AND Wizards!”

Of course there is. We would never make anyone give up one for the other as if you can’t LOVE Twilight if you are a HP fan. This is a just for fun question.

What Karla said about them being too hard to compare reminds me of how I feel when someone asks me my favorite book. There are soooo many, it’s too hard to come up with just one. Or my favorite band or favorite song…. Sometimes I have a favorite of the week or month and that’s subject to change when I come across my next new favorite.

— Shonica    Nov 6, 03:50 PM    #

Just one thing to say; Harry Potter doesn’t need us PROVING that it’s great; it proves that on its own… :)

Twilight is transparent; it’s a pathetic, meaningless, redundant purple prose with ZERO complexity. You don’t even need your thinking ability, there is no plot so you can actually link stuff, I’ve read the series, ALL of it and not once I went like “OH that’s why she didn’t have him explain why he didn’t do that “ or “OH that’s why she said that vague thing earlier”. While reading Twilight, I could’ve literally taken out my brain and still understood it.

Twilight is not as well known as Harry Potter; just point out round glassed or a lighting shaped scar, and see the first thing that comes to mind to the person you’re asking, whether the person is a male, female, an adult, a teenager or a child, I am 100% sure that the person will say HARRY POTTER. I am perfectly sure that people across the globe know of Harry Potter more than Twilight, have you considered the number of fans it has, from Asia to America, and from the North Pole to the South Pole(even though it’s an unpopulated region). While if you ask someone who lives in let’s say Pakistan if they know about Twilight, I am sure they will say we know what twilight is, it’s both the time before sunrise called dawn and the time after sunset called dusk!.

Twilight sorry to say, has no morals compared to Harry Potter. It’s just a matter of the way you look into it, it’s wrong to compare Stephanie Meyers to J.K Rowling because they have nothing in common, as J.K created a new different world, a world you can indulge yourself in where you can immerse your senses and unleash your imagination. Stephanie’s work is something common, I guess there are a lot of references to human and vampire affection in many books, since vampires are known to be lustful and seductive. When people say that Stephanie is the new J.K; well I take it as wishful thinking as this can never happen, no matter what!

And like Kelsey said, Twilight has got a lesser number of sales compared to Harry Potter. Harry Potter sales are a lot more than you think Twilighters, Harry Potter is translated to more than 67 languages, it has films, video games, toys, clothes, a theme park, food (Chocolate frogs\Bertie Botts beans and more)… ETC. The books have sold more than 400 million copies worldwide, while Twilight only sold 25 million, you can see the VAST difference between them.

OK so Stephanie Mayer just dreamed about Twilight and started writing, she didn’t plan her plot I’m sure of it, and mark my words this affected her plot severely. There are no subplots to keep you interested, there’s only one plot and that plot revolves around Bella loving Edward, Edward loving Bella, Jacob loving Bella and Bella loving Jacob. Comparing Stephanie Meyer’s plot to J.K Rowling’s amazing plot is rather silly, because J.K created a new world filled with details beyond description, and do not forget her subplots, J.K’s subplots are far more complex than Stephanie’s main plot in the first place.

Do not get me started on Stephanie’s style of writing, although some may find it good, it’s very weak, she uses words too often and she writes three chapters each time she wants to describe how good looking Edward is, I started disliking the word ‘smoldering’ good lord, how many times did she use that ?!. Also she frequently adds a big word to simple sentences just to make it look more professional, and I honestly think that’s what middle schoolers do, at least I used to do that in middle school. And as the first person style she used, well what is so fascinating about her writing in first person, I’ve recently discovered that it only makes the book longer and more boring, when she writes in first person she can add more details like this made up one here: “Bella smelled the amazing vapor of the hot water pouring from her shower mixed with her shampoo”. I practically vomited at each and every sick, cheesy love scene she wrote, and of course the love sentences from Edward to Bella “My life was moonless before you….. Or whatever it was”. Now can Stephanie’s style of writing compare to J.K’s captivating, amazing writing ?! Firstly, J.K started her writing easy, so that six year olds can read her books, then the books developed as each and every fan grew, the books grew with them NOT losing the amazing captivity they possess. Secondly, J.K doesn’t use words too often, she tends to vary her ways of describing something, and NONE of her dialogue lines where cheesy at all. Thirdly, did J.K ever write 3 long chapters on how Harry was the chosen one in each and every book ?! Alright I know that it was mentioned in each book, but she NEVER SAID more than “The boy who lived”, see, a simple small sentence that takes only a tiny space in the book, not oh how perfect incredibly long paragraphs on Edward’s smoldering golden eyes, amazing beauty or his sparkle.

Also don’t forget that Stephanie’s saga is basically for little 13 year olds who didn’t read many books to be able to judge. But seriously, she stole her plot basically, now if any of the Twilighters ever read a classic book, or at least any OTHER book they’d understand what I mean!. Stephanie’s plot isn’t new; well I don’t call human\vampire affection new that is used in so many books. Since vampires are known to be very seductive and lustful. So this means her plot is common, someone long ago had that idea, the idea was written in many other amazingly written books, so why waste the time and pathetically try to copy a plot in a very crappy way that makes the reader want to hurl ?! Now, tell me have you EVER read any other plot that has, even the slightest similarity to Harry Potter ?! No there are no plots like it; J.K worked 15 years on it!! 15 years for crying out loud! We have to appreciate her work, she not only made drafts, she made drafts for the drafts, now how can that NOT BE professional, and how can we not take that for granted ?! And look how her books turned out to be! Thank god her work paid off.

Of course when it comes to Stephanie’s characters, well not all of them, but most, are very annoying and rather dimwitted, who would wish to relate to them. Starting with Bella, the sick dependent, whiny, dreamless, ambition-less pathetic, oh-I’m-going-to-die every three pages and no-one-notices-me type of girl, to the oh-so-perfect-god, the amazingly handsome, brilliant, obsessive, ABUSIVE Edward.. The only good character she has is Jacob! And he is the one I was referring to when I said “Not all of them”. Of course that didn’t last, she wrecked Jacob when she made him a pedophile, honestly imprinting Nessie, and it’s sickening. Now look at J.K’s characters, NONE of them is useless, none of them was left behind, I could easily give up some of the characters from Stephanie’s series, but Neville the one character we thought to be useless KILLED NAGINI, the Horcrux, that is character DEVELOPMENT. Severus, look at Snape, he’s a masterpiece no character was ever as complex as he is!! Dumbledore, we all thought we knew him so well, then she surprises us with that amazing past, and complexity! Voldemort, even Voldemort the villain, he too is amazing, he is so complex, the way he became Voldemort is just enough to intrigue any reader!

Oh and what morals can you learn from Twilight ?! List ONE GOOD moral, just one and I’ll back out, let me tell you what I learned from it:

1- Females are stupid, whiny and they should have no dreams or ambitions, they should lust the perfect man and that’s it. Look at Bella, she PROVES that.
2- You have two men fighting over you, then you have succeeded in becoming the perfect female, and may the dominant male win.. Like animals you see! Jacob and Edward fighting over precious Bella.
3- You should forget your friends, your loved ones for this so called perfect man. Look at how Bella treats her friends, how she sulks around the house because oh so poor Bella doesn’t have a boyfriend.
4- Men should be abusive, controlling and obsessive to the point that they sabotage your car so you don’t go out, to the point that they look at you when you’re sleeping.. To these creepy points, that scares me just by reading them. Thank you Edward!

Now let me tell you what I learned from Harry Potter which I grew up with, and you tell me which book has better morals:

1- Be trustful.
2- Care for your friends, family and loved ones.
3- Love is important, you should know that it’s one of the important essentials of life, no one and I mean NO ONE can live, if they’re not loved.
4- Be brave, you may be small, young, foolish and careless. BUT! You sure can do a change in life.
5- Do not let anyone or anything, drive you away from doing what is right, what you believe in.
6- Just look at the amazing, truly deep, meaningful things that Dumbledore says. Look at how many quotes you can take from his speech ?
7- Facing obstacles ? Do not let that get you down, no! Go and try again and again and again, until you do it right.
8- Study! It’s important that you learn, not only learn how to ‘fight evil’ or ‘magic unreal stuff’ No! Learn and be eager for learning, sure they teach magical subjects in Hogwarts, but please, I have a brain and so do others.. That sends a message to all of us, saying learning is essential and most importantly you cannot live without it.
8- Sacrifice, you must favour others, over yourself.
So which one has better morals ?!

Don’t get me started on Breaking Dawn, yes I read it.. It doesn’t deserve to be called a book.

— Melanie    Dec 15, 10:58 PM    #

Wow that totally made me want to go to the book store, grab “Twilight”, and throw it on the ground and stomp on it. Sadly I can do that but you also exceeded in making me want to read “Twilghtt” You should have an ediitorial in a newspaper and I would suggest that you get a cat or a dog. Dont” ask why. Name it Harry if its a boy and Ron if its a boy and Nevelle of its a boy and Hermionie if its a girl and ginny if its a girl and Luna if its a girl. In fact if I were you i’d get a few cats.

— Kyle Sauley    Dec 18, 08:58 PM    #

WOW WOW WOW MISS M. I read that book because of your description and you must not of been paying attention while reading. First of it dose’nt even have 3 straight paragraphs about Edward’s looks. Second J.K did aded Character developement but not until the 5th book. Half way through the 1st book and atleast 10 people have a story behind them and they will be back for the next book. Stephanie uses a larger vocabulary then J.K and she barely repeats words. And you do learn life lessons from Twilight. Keep your friends close and don’t think the impossible can’t happen. The Twiligh tbooks are way good even though the Harry Potter Series are way great. Twilight dosent have a boring beginign like all the harry potter books. If I ever have problems falling asleep i can read the first chapter of the Soceriers stone. Twilight is a classic and who’s better is for the public to decide. I go Harry Potter but that could change. Thats all I have got to say. GOOD NIGHT AND A MERRY CHRISTMAS

— KYLE    Dec 23, 08:20 PM    #

How interesting. I can’t wait to read it myself. The library now has several new copies. (Let us hope that no one steals these.) I will have to snatch one up and find out for myself.

Without reading it, but from listening to what others say, it sounds to me that it is like comparing apples to oranges. Both are good, but they are different.

— Shonica    Dec 26, 02:55 PM    #

i think its more lide comparieng pinnaples and potatoes. the both are interesting. Plus its fun to say Pinnaples and potatoes. try saying that 6.5 times fast.(I just did its quite easy)

— K(Y)L(E) S(A)U(L)E(Y)    Dec 26, 05:08 PM    #

LOL! It is fun to say pineapples and potatoes. I lost count while trying to say it 6.5 times fast though. Will have to try again. :)

— Shonica    Dec 28, 02:14 PM    #