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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

She isn't a bad author, just a bad person. The reason I regret reading her work isn't because of the work itself...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

She can't keep consistent with her dates and how long ago things were

She had good ideas but is a bad author

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Not wanting to defend Rowling, since she's an evil and hateful person, but there's many great authors who fall foul of basic arithmetic. I would argue that they are completely separate skills; TV Tropes has a good list. (Also, I'd argue that most of her good ideas were taken from someone else.)

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WritersCannotDoMath