As an avid reader, I hope I can state my opinion with a certain amount of certainty.
I enjoy both series as entertainment, but I feel that I have to point out that neither series can realistically be considered "literature." This said, I do believe that the Harry Potter series is probably more intellectual than Twilight, sorry Twihards. (on a side note, I find it highly entertaining that this battle between vampires and wizards has grown so much. On a little site dedicated to wizard lovers, they refer to twilight fans as "twitards" and treat the word twilight like a curse word, spelling it tw*l*ght. Get a life? Yes, but entertaining nonetheless).
Twilight vs. Harry Potter
What they have in common:
Whiny protagonists
Bella: pretty sure 99% of Bella's internal dialogue is basically just a self-pitying sobfest. Would you like some cheese with that wine?
Harry: come on. in the 4th book most of his dialogue is in all caps and he is constantly yelling at everyone and basically acting like a 10 year old girl. you're going to have a sucky year at school and have to fight off voldemort, multiple near death experiences, and malfoy making fun of you. cry me a river and go drown yourself in it.
Bad guys that are not fully alive and look like corpses
The evil vampires.
Voldemort. (speaking of which, Ralph Fiennes is the most amazing voldemort they could have picked...further casting opinions to follow)
Awkward Love Triangles
Bella. Jacob. Edward. Mike. (how could one guy, much less 3 be willing to put up with her constant boo-hooing?)
Harry. Cho. Cedric. (wow Robert Pattinson really gets around. drama queen.)
Hilarious/awesome secondary characters that keep you sane
Emmet. Jacob (when he isn't whining as much as Bella). Charlie. Alice.
Ron. Fred. George. (the weasley clan is what kept me coming back to these books. no lie)
Likes and Dislikes:
Twilight is a cheesy love story. it's like a chickflick. good fluff every now and then but I dont need to read/watch it 24/7.
Harry Potter...it's awesome. And there's 7 books. it can entertain me for a lot longer. This said...it's pretty juvenile.
Twilight: BELLA ANNOYS ME.
Harry Potter: HARRY ANNOYS ME.
(basically the main characters are just too egomaniacal for me. Your boyfriend dumped you? oh yeah, you're the only one in the history of the world to experience that. Oh great, now he's the chosen one? like harry needed an ego boost. see Wizard Angst)
The Movies:
Twilight/New Moon: way better filmed than i was expecting. For the most part i agree with the casting except for (and please, no tomatoes or other rotten fruits/veggies) Robert Pattinson. ...Really guys? out of all of the actors in the world you couldn't find someone else to stick in a sunless room for a year to get that lovely pasty color to play edward? sorry, but when i think hottest immortal vampire of my dreams...Rob Pattinson does not even make top 20. Now, i don't exactly have a perfect guy picked out but i'm just not a Rob fan. He was more palatable as Cedric Diggory, when he wasn't trying to be every teen girls fantasy. sorry, Rob, mission unsuccessful. Jacob Black? let's just say i switched to Team Jacob after New Moon. 'Nough said.
Harry Potter:
Daniel Radcliffe - awkward and annoying. perfect.
Emma Watson: perfect, way cuter and less awkward than the Hermione of the books.
Rupert Grint: FAVORITE EVER. he is so awkward and weasley-ish and i adore him.
Fred and George: right up there with ron. i think they are hilarious and clever and they add some much needed comic relief amidst harry's perpetual pessimism.
Alan Rickman: if anyone else had played snape, these movies would have failed miserably. He is so perfect and his deadpan monotone is epic no matter what role he plays.
Tom Felton: the exact mixture of brat and suave that i always pictured malfoy
Ralph Fiennes: just like his role in the duchess, you love to hate him as the worlds creepiest Voldemort.
The movies themselves:
the early movies are basically terrible, but it kind of adds to their charm.
for the most part, the movies followed the basic plots of the books as much as possible...until we get to The Order of the Phoenix.
The Order was one of my favorite books and since i read it right before seeing the movie, i was fresher on my knowledge of the plot. THEY COMPLETELY SCREWED UP. the prophesy in the fifth book is SO important to the rest of the series and they completely skim over all of that. Also, they leave out a lot of things surrounding the order that i thought were pretty critical. and lastly, sirius dies. which is just all J.K. Rowling's fault and i have never forgiven her for that. RIP Sirius Black. (spinoff series???)
The Half Blood Prince. Two words: Epic Battle. WHERE WAS THAT!?!? i waited for an ENTIRE year for that movie to come out and was so pumped for there to finally be a Lord of the Rings scale battle fought inside hogwarts (soon to come a Lord of the Rings post, get excited.) But what do we get? Nothing. no battle scene, AND HARRY WASNT EVEN PETRIFIED. if Harry was really such a big dumbledore fan he would have gone off and tried to kill all of those death eaters with the one spell he knows - expelliarmus. (i'm sorry, you've been in wizarding school for 6 years and that's STILL your go to spell? no. avada kedavra the crap out of them. kill or be killed.) Still unhappy about the lack of battle scene. epic fail warner brothers. also, they leave out a bunch of the memory stuff in the pensieve which was my favorite part of the book and also REALLY important. and dumbledor's funeral with the elder wand and all that jazz.
in order of my favorite:
Harry Potter:
Prisoner of Azkaban
Goblet of Fire
Half Blood Prince
Order of the Phoenix
Chamber of Secrets
Sorcerer's Stone
(it was brought to my attention that i left out the Deathly Hallows, this is BECAUSE (please dont kill me) I have only read it once and I dont really remember what I thought of it. BUT (spoiler alert) since half of my favorite characters die/have died by this point...and the one character I WANTED to STAY DEAD...didn't...I would probably place it below Order of the Phoenix somewhere.)
Twilight:
Eclipse
Twilight
Breaking Dawn
New Moon
And that is my weigh in on the battle between wizards and vampires.
for something that will literally bring you to tears (from laughing) read this.
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