Why Harry Potter made me angry and 2 books made me cry at 1 AM in bed (April Wrapup)
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- In my monthly book wrapup, I talk about my new favorite character from Harry Potter and why historical romance is better than contemporary romance. Use code READWITHCINDY to get your first BOTM box for $9.99: bookofthemonth...
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BOOKS I READ
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Into the Drowning Deep, Little Fires Everywhere, One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, The Kiss Quotient, The Downstairs Girl, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Never Let Me Go
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I go on runs while listening to Cindy because her videos give me the vague feeling that I am being chased
This comment made me laugh out loud so I'm pinning it
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 explain please I’m dead
I started listening to Cindy when I'm working out at home and while it distracts me from the pain in my muscles, I had a couple of laughs that made me fall on my butt while planking (the vagina flowers joke from last week's video was too good).
GIRL WHAT 😭 I HATE THAT I UNDERSTAND WHAT U MEAN
This is the single funniest comment I have ever read omggggggg
They did Harry's humor dirty in the movies, like there's so much lack of sass. It's like watching cindy and not having her throw shade every 10 seconds...
Wow I can't even imagine
Anna yeah it seems like the only time they ever showed Harry’s sense of humor in the movies was with Half Blood Prince
this is so freakin accurate omg xD
I just remember someone saying "if they'd let daniel radcliffe be a little more like himself that would've been more true to book harry" XD sassy
Especially the sixth movie. That movie was the worst. The book was way better.
Book Ron: defends Hermione, because that's who he is, loyal to his friends and protective of them.
Movie Ron: encourages Snape's bullying towards one of his two best friends, going against any of his character traits established in the books.
Ron was one of my faves in the books, and the movies did him so dirty. 😞
sweet pea bee They gave all his good lines to hermione
sweet pea bee that’s funny because I used to like him in the movies but not the books
@@sweetpeabee4983 ikr like ron was actually a good person in the books but the movies made him an asshole
Well you see Ron wasn't stupid in the books. Airheaded at times sure but he came up with good ideas and faced his fears and defended his loved ones on a regular bases. Movie Ron was stupid and jealous.
Listen: when I was 10 I skipped reading Prisoner of Azkaban because the part where Harry sneaks into town to drink butterbeer after being specifically told not to by adults gave my obedient good girl soul too much second hand anxiety to cope with
Thus: I spent the entirety of Goblet of Fire thinking "yo what happened to Ron's rat"
Lmao this made me laugh so much
😮😂😂😂🤣
i relate too much OMG
Tbh Snape's reaction after catching Harry sneaking out was SO VALID lmao. One of the few times in the books where I was like, yeah you TELL Harry what's up
@@tohruxkyo100 😂😂😂
“A girl who isn’t like other girls”
Ain’t that every main girl, like, ever.
When worlds collide. Ahh. When my favorite hobby (reading) and favorite genre of music are all in one spot. Fellow army here.
And in reality most of the time they are exactly like everyone else and just have some extreme, unexplained talent or power that doesn't make them different, it just makes them out right better.
I'm looking at you Ray, from Star Wars.
I mean if you're being cynical enough, every girl isn't like other girls
Just once, I want someone to take that trope and give it a good twist. "I'm not like other girls...I'm a bear."
@@PeanutButterZombie00 Should go look up an absolutely awful book called "My hot pterodactyl boyfriend,".
I mean it isn't the girl that is different, it's a boy that Isn't like other boys.... He's a pterodactyl.
The fact that Ron had a grown man as a pet is something I wish had never happened.
They shared a bed together...
readwithcindy oh this is the marauders map paradox!
@@withcindy i'm scared
@@sock9766 mind blown.. now I'm wondering why the twins never saw their little brother sleeping with another person in his bed????
Novel-Tea Dee biggest plot hole of the series!
“An assassin that’s not like other assassins” is SOOO many YA characters
Pretty much...
"I wasn't like other girls because I was an assassin--but, being a girl, I wasn't like other assassins."
lol i was thinking of Aelin (from throne of glass) the entire time when Cindy was talking about nevernight
I mean I’m writing a book about teens getting picked to be trained to be an assassin but the protagonist really doesn’t want to and only wins from her intelligence - and then joins a rebel group only to be thrown further into dystopia.
Just wait until Cindy reads Throne of Glass
I'm not sure there's anything more satisfying than listening to a brutal, eviscerating take-down of Snape.
it's what he deserves
There is something more satisfying, but that comes later 🤔😂
Try Nicholas blacks take down
God I HATE book Snape so much
Snape is an incel
Cindy: *ranting about Prisoner of Azkaban*
Me: "Honey, you've got a big storm coming"
NOT MY FAVORITE CHARACTER! NOT MY MISSUNDERSTOOD KING!
Colabuss spoilers yikes ....
@@Arshva maybe don't spoil, ik harry potter is VERY widely read, but there are people that haven't
@@autumnsprite they were literally quoting Cindy, so.... 🤷♀️
@@aden.e guys, you just can't cry "spoiler" on harry potter.
"I just wanna feel something."
*Cindy feels something*
Cindy: Wait, that's illegal
my internal conflict
"Why do you recommend me books you think I'd hate?"
I mean, your suffering gets you the three Cs: clout, coin and content
But is it worth it?
Omg you're right
A character isn't written well enough when you can't imagine them in vines. Harry was one of them sometimes.
You're absolutely right
Damn... that's actually a great motivation for me to think back all of the characters I've created and start working on them harder..
@@rat-xo7mj That's what motivates me as well while writing. I make character sheets and try to get tiers of friendship or rivalry between them.
This is so oddly specific and 100% correct and valid at the same time.
@@alicezanini6123 I was watching Six of Crows as vines and it just hit me.
It’s confirmed: Sirius Black is everyone’s favorite character and if he isn’t, you’re wrong
AnimeCountDown sorry, I like Cedric Diggory and Draco Malfoy, but pretty much only their looks in the movie HAHAHHAHA
I love his brother, Regulus Black, a thousand times more.
Sirius Stan
Yes, nothing like an abusive slave-owner to be your number 1.
@@925263 I totally forgot you were talking about house-elves and I panicked for several seconds hahhaa.
Jk Rowling: makes an Asian character named cho Chang
‘I love all cultures 😌😌’
we love an ally!
Red Velvet what makes this *technically* wrong is because JK Rowling liked the actress in the movie so much she decide to change cho change ethnicity to the actress (which is Scottish). However, the reason I said technically is because right now, it is kind of fun to make fun of the author and all the changes she brought to the series. So if you want to reject the changes, go ahead. It’s fun.
@@samfowler9851 making fun of jk rowling will always be funny because she's a bad person. next
Yeri is so pretty omg my bby
@@samfowler9851 Sorry, I know you meant to type "change Cho Chang's" but reading "she decided to change-cho-change" gave me the snorts.
Cindy: it’s about the y e a r n i n g Me, almost 20, has never even held hands or had a crush: frick dude it sure is
Lmaoooooo me too shshshhs
Cindy: I got mad at myself for feeling-
Me: typical cindy emotions who?
I hate having emotions
@@withcindy can relate
@@withcindy we love you anyways
@@withcindy same
@@withcindy lucky, I would do anything to have emotions again
Edgy female character driven book: Yay!
Notices its written by a man: oh boy, here we go
yep.....
You can always distinguish when a book is written by a man in how a book that has a female protagonist/main perspective is written . I can always tell something is off when a female’s personality is defined by 1 singular trait i.e. jackaby series i read in high school
I recently bought a vampire lesbian romance and didn't realize until too late that it was written by a man... figured it out when I realized that in all of the Many Sex Scenes the main vampire would only think about her dead husband while having /relations/ with another woman
Brandon Sanderson will change your mind. I'll bet my favorite toe on it. Why do I have a favorite toe? None of your goddamn business.
But seriously though, read the Mistborn series and the Skyward series as a starter. He's a male author, but he doesn't write like a dude, if you know what I mean.
@@alexiscervantes5774 *sighs in lesbian*
"Give me a book that will make me cry...I just want to feel UTTER DESPAIR."
SJM: aight, time to whip out book 4
NOOOOOOO
this made me laugh out loud
January 26, 2021
It’s about to get real.
Elise Granato oh no..don’t tell Maas is making a new ACOTAR book
I wonder how much more Cindy would hate Snape when she finds out that the man is literally 33 years old terrorizing 13 year olds. AND my boy Sirius was banished to Azkaban w/o trial
Wait he was only 20 when lily died??
Jennifer Morales They were all 21 when Voldy attacked in 1981
@@elleMN0PE 😱 i knew they were young but not that young
Jennifer Morales to be fair, the movies aged all the adults up by 5-10 years, but it doesn’t set up just how tragic James and Lily’s deaths were (and Sirius’ incarceration too)
@@MSoundous They aged up all the adults in the movies because they were dead set on having Alan Rickman as Snape. Otherwise, the adults (the marauders & Snape & Lily) would’ve been in their 30s as of 1990. So really, blame the producers for the general confusion.
I just love how it goes in the parody.
Harry: Now I can come live with you instead of the Dursley's.
Sirius: Harry. I am homeless. Can I live with you?
God, I love AVPS so much
YESSSSSSSSS AVPS!
@@ananyam9950 holy fuck, your username is amazing
The title "Harry Potter made me angry" made me think I was about to start questioning my love for Harry Potter again (a common occurrence in these dark jk rowling twitter/cursed child/ fantastic beasts days) but hearing you say you liked it made my day!! Prisoner of Azkaban is probably my favorite book in the whole series!!
I enjoyed it and that's why it made me angry!
Same! I actually liked it better than a good 2/4ths of goblet of fire, honestly
I've seen four of my friends read HP for the first time, and they weren't very into it until Prisioner of Azkaban. Also all of them got stuck temporarily in Order of the Phoenix, but once they finished it it became one of their favorite ones. My personal favorite is Order of the Phoenix, but I do think that Prisoner of Azkaban and Goblet of Fire are the best ones overall
I actually read Prisoner of Azkaban first so that's why I love it so much!!
I actually like Fantastic Beasts... :/
Cindy: Feels happy for Harry
Cindy: *That's illegal*
OFF TO JAIL!
readwithcindy It’s a ‘Sirius’ offense.
@@AxleBoost :|
Sirius black is the only character that matters, ever. His experience of abuse, and the way he reacts to certain things as a victim of childhood abuse is the most accurate portrayal I've ever seen. (JK Rowling is still problematic tho)
He's fantastic
Sirius is my all time favorite character ever.
Honestly, yeah. Most people were crushing on harry and I'm over here like, "I just want to be in a thruple with Sirius and Lupin, i NeEd mY dAdDiEs!"
Am I the only one who pretty much pictures Sirius as the magical equivalent of Lorelei Gilmore? Like yeah, we get it, your super rich parents who bend over backwards to give you the best of everything are the children of Satan because they weren't fans of your topshop leather jacket. We get it.
Noah Ariss 👁 👁 The fact you made me read that
with my two eyes I-
👄
you mentioning the James-Sirius friendship and calling it "juicy" is exactly how i feel about the whole Marauders narrative. thank you ma'am
Somehow I've always thought Remus Lupin gives big bisexual vibes. Like his strong relationship with Sirius hmm... We all should have that talk.
hmmmm
Just wait for Rowling's next tweet.
@@MrHaganenoEdward sadly, she would never come up with headcanon that good and that sense-making. I love the books, but this is Jo "lol ancient wizards pooped on the floor" Rowling we're talking about.
Men can't be really good, platonic friends
@@thabiso5792 There's close and then there's CLOOOOOOOOSE.
Harry’s angst in the later books is very valid, based on what he goes through later on - without giving anything away, people start dying and I just think Harry’s “angst” is him reacting to the emotional pain 🤷♀️
Yeah, I think people sometimes forget that Harry is a teenager going through this trauma. The angst is actually quite realistic, probably one of the things Rowling did really well in this series
It makes Harry more human. All the ya books about child soldiers almost never touch the subject of grief and anger, which is insulting and damaging.
Just you wait, there's a LOT of angsty Harry in the 5th book
Excellent
I LOVE the OotP because of all that angst. Harry needed all that energy, he was way too ok with everything before.
Ohhh, I loved the fifth book. Mostly because the bridge lady was a better villain than the main villain.
Brah I hate the fifth book cause Harry felt like a little bitch
I loooove the fifth book!!!! My fave in the series
Cindy: I just wanna feel something
Also Cindy: I got mad at myself for feeling
I am a woman of conflicting emotions. A walking contradiction. A juxtaposition of a human being.
I kinda know that emotion when she unpinned your post.❤❤❤ Samantha@ she is playing your emotions.😂😂
IM SORRY I WISH I COULD PIN MORE THAN ONE COMMENT
I absolutely love the innocent perspective on Harry Potter because it really gives some new insides for people who were raised with Harry Potter as a religion.
No one:
Literally no one:
Cindy: *"It's about the **_yearning_** !!"*
Priorities
Yes though!! That's exactly why I read mutual pining fanfiction it's about the y e a r n i n g idc about the established relationships tbh but how they get together? That's my jam.
"A girl who's not like other girls, or in this case, an assassin who's not like other assassins"
.. So, basically Celeana from Throne of Glass?
Natalia Szarkova throne of glass had so much potential 😭😭 and then....it was written as a YA
@@kasairan8492
YA? Young adult?
Ninjaananas yes ya = young adult :) more restrictions of death and gore and stuff but hey having sex scenes that just wat is ok! lol
@@manach1643
Okay.
Ran Kasai yk honestly I think that she wrote it really goddamn well for it being ya, like I think it was ya for the sake of reaching a broader audience but it was fairly on the dark side for ya, with pretty tastefully done scenes that still portrayed her character good, but still kept it in the ya category you know? Idk if I’m making any sense
"james potter is way more interesting than harry"
SAMEEE OMG IT'S WHAT I'VE ALWAYS THOUGHT
yea im way more interested in reading about him than harry!
@@withcindy YESSS we need a marauders series 😣
Yeah like I love Newt but the stories just kinda feel like they were forced on him, like he is a hufflepuff zoologist who got dragged into these messes
@Cleverly relatable Username James Potter is a fucking bully so no... screw him.
@Cleverly relatable Username That wasn't just one scene, it was various scenes that happened off-page. You think I would be interested in reading a book about the Marauders and reading more scenes with fucking Sirius and James being arrogant bullies, fuck that. No!! I am done with Harry Potter and J K Rowling.
"we're just gonna jam this into the ground until you feel nothing but grief and misery" just a regular tuesday then
Must be a day that ends with y
😂😂😂😂😂
I hated how they constantly referred to Isabel's beauty in the Nightingale. Like I get it, she's super beautiful. But yeah...this book made me cry like the little bitch I am.
Also yes, when Ron defends Hermione yessss, but then in the movie, instead of defending her Ron says "he's right, you know ".
i hate that they change that in the movie!!
The White Rose in WW2 is a good example of how anti-nazi ideology actually affected real people. This group of young people handed out pamphlets, and were beheaded for it. I know we want to read about characters with anti-nazi ideas, but it was super dangerous to express these ideas in real life, unfortunately.
Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban in the best book in the series Imo!
I was pleasantly surprised!
The fourth is my personal fav
Yesssss
It's my favourite too, followed by Deathly Hallows and Goblet of Fire
I prefer Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix but Azkaban was very solid
Last time I was this early Lily and James were still alive
Too soon
you made me GASP why must you hurt me in this way
So never
Cleverly relatable Username dam that does hurt
i mean....sirius black is everyone's favorite character, you're just late to the party lmao
sometimes i wonder if cindy's internal dialogue when reading angst she likes is like... "yasss rip my heart out of my chest. grind it under your heel -- no, put it in a blender! BLEND ITTT!! pour it out into the gutter!! i am LOVING the PAIN"
Yes
Sirius Black is definitely one of the more interesting Harry Potter characters. I'm curious about how you'll feel about Order of the Phoenix when you get to it, because Harry has extra angst in that one. I personally enjoy it because I think his behavior makes sense when you consider the things that have happened to him, but I've heard other people say that it is their least favorite because it is so dark compared to the earlier books.
I used to think he was whinny as fuck, but then I got older and I started to get why he was so pissy all the time. It's not like he didn't have a bunch of very good reasons, he had a LOT in his head (*nudgenudge*) and then there's just plain hormones. It was a sucky time all around for him.
Yeah, I was confused when that one came out and so many people complained about how angry Harry was in it. I was like, "Well........YEAH." Given the events he'd been through at that point, anger made a lot of sense.
Back from when I read it it was a least favorite not so much for it being dark (I really liked how dark each book slowly got) but more for Harry himself. I completely understand why that had to happen for his character, and I do like that his trauma is addressed within the book since he deals with abuse and extreme pressure all the time. Especially for the time the book came out I don't know if that kind of perspective of hero narratives was focused on. I will admit though that it was very frustrating seeing Harry push away people that CONTINUOUSLY tried to help him.
listen I have mixed feelings about how whiny he was...on the one hand I sorta get where he was coming from, but I found it really hard to read at times
I'm one of them 😂. My main issue with Order of the Phoenix is how it stretched on for really, really long. And after Goblet of Fire, which was pretty fast paced (and my personal favorite) it just didn't really hit the right way.
when I was younger I didn't realise that Snape would be in his early 30s at the start of the series and not 50... Bc he's the same age as Lily and James, who died when they were like 22 and Harry one. So in Sorcerer's Stone Snape would've been around 32... Like that messed me up
Oh man...that's so weird to think now!
What??? I always imagined him being so much older when I was younger and read the books 🤯 I seriously want to re-read the books again and see how my perspective has changed now that I'm almost 27 and have been through some shit.
Alan Rickman distorted our age perception
the way i see it harry doesn't get angsty as much as he gets just straight up angry at the way he's being treated (which, absolutely fair, it would be SO boring if he was 100% fine with the pressure he's expected to deal with)
Looking at Cindy talking about Harry Potter makes me feel like she is a grownup
character development, starring: me
It's so fun hearing someone talk about Harry Potter because it seems like everyone around me has read or watched the series million years ago and it feels weird to discuss it at all. Like most of the time it's just factual/historical like "yeah that happened". As I reread HP as I got older and therefore know more about myself, I find myself identify less and less with Harry (when I was a kid I identified with the main characters more readily) and why should that surprise me, I'm a Hufflepuff and I don't subscribe to heroism. Okay I wanted to say more but I'm censoring myself until you read more of the series. Thank you for the video!
Yup, that happened to me, too. I was a gryffindor until I retook the test last year for the giggles, and got hufflepuff. I'm like, yeah, I'm down! These guys are probably a bunch of really chill dudes. Helga was all about equality, that socialist witch, and guess what, their dorm is real close to the kitchens! Really, sounds all kinds of awesome to me.
As we get older, I guess we get less reckless and more interested in keeping the peace.
@@Mastermint Hahaha socialist witch, that sounds really good :)
I think many people can agree to this haha! Me and my friends joke all the time that we’d be happy to be in any of the houses, as long as it’s not gryffindor! Why? Solely because that’s Harry Potter’s house 😂 A bit dramatic, but we unanimously agree that Harry Potter is a shitwipe and the least favorite character
Lol i am honestly like you, idk why but i just can't stand gryffindors! Maybe because one of their qualities is recklessness(?) , and i despise recklessness..I'm a Ravenclaw btw.
I used to relate to hermione a lot bc books, weird hair and Greek name but then burnout happened, and also I realised that Luna was right fucking there
I'm curiouse to see with book will make Cindy cry. Because, sorry Cindy, but Harry Potter breaks everyone sooner or later.
Knowing who her favorite character is, I think we all know which one it's gonna be.
SPOILER
But man, I remember I cried _so much_ when Dumbledore died... And for some reason, that didn't happen when i read it for the first time, it was the second time; and everytime after
@@staarlost same 💀 he wasn't even my favourite character but i literally felt
like I lost something
@@staarlostSPOILER
I cried the most for hedwig and Fred. Like wtf was that 😭😭😭
I love how you say “in typical quarantine form” as if you’ve done this before
Yes
@@withcindy she found out you're a timelord, take her outttt
One of the best things about the Harry Potter series is that the books just get better and better. They grow with the characters. I think you’ll love them more as you go along, especially because I felt similarly about the first 2 books and I think it’s because they’re meant for much younger readers and the characters are younger then.
exactly!!
Your expression is hilarious when you're talking about the possible Nazi love interest.
we're treading dangerous waters...
I am most impressed at how well postured her middle fingering is.
Never seen such a perfect "fuck you," in my life.
WHEN YOU SAID "HE WASN'T HIMBO ENOUGH FOR ME." I FELT THAT. SO HARD. Can't find good well written himbos these days smh.
Cindy being embarrassed of liking Harry Potter is literally me after I looked back at the story and its lack of representation. (Also... j k rowling)
I love the story...not the author
Harry wrote the books, idk what you talking about.
I remember when I first read The Prisoner of Askaban, Sirius shot up to favorite HP character. Still is. I love that guy.
yesss we stan
I think most people will typically agree that the first two Harry Potter books are the weakest and stuff starts to really get good around 3. Something I think that's a bit underrated and hard to really catch for newer folks who read it all at once instead of real time when it first came out is that Harry Potter (the series) got more mature and sort of aged along with the readers as books went on.
So much this! I was 8 when I started reading the first book and 17 by the time the last book came out and it truly was like growing up right alongside Harry!
When Cindy said she was mad, we all know that's the cup of tea we are waiting for
Here it is...
I can't wait for Cindy to quote herself about those Snape adjectives after she's done with the 6th book 🤣
If you want to read a devastating book, read “Night” by Eli Wesley. If you haven’t read or heard of it, it’s Holocaust survivor’s recounting of just experiences. We read it in school and when the teacher would tell us to look up from our books when reading time was finished, I could see other students crying when the looked up. It’s a lot of handle.
SIRIUS IS A DRAMA QUEEN AND WE LOVE TAT SHIT I'm high key happy ur getting into hp *crying*
Cindy: I had heard Harry would get more angsty, and i was worried, but i actually like his angst.
...haha who's going to tell her?
I volunteer as tribute
Order of the Phoenix. Just wait.
*me:* hmmmm i should rly complete more of my reading to-do list--
*cindy:* _uploads a new video_
*me:* what are books even
i read so that u dont have to
readwithcindy I’m not sure if I should love you or hate you for enabling my gerbil sizes attention span
Everyone is out here talking about Harry Potter but I'm just sitting here knitting and wishing people talked more about the superiority of historical romance. Mostly because contemporary romances find a way to rub in my face that my contemporary romantic experience has been mostly not ideal and I just don't need that. Ever.
"Are all WWII stories the same? Yeaahh."
Narnia wants to know where you live
Imagine having emotions
I hate it
i woke up this morning with the thought "cindy will post her wrap-up today" aND YOU *DELIVERED* THANK YOU SO MUCH
Omg are you psychic
People complaining about Angst Harry like Angst Harry isn't the only Harry with a personality
If you like yearning in a historical romance setting: The Song of Achilles. Also some good old fashioned soul destroying heartbreak you know. We love to read it.
“I just want to feel utter despair”
Junko Enoshima: You called?
The Prisoner of Azkaban made me cry too 😞
I cried reading other books but not this one!
readwithcindy It was Sirius saying Harry could live with him, but then Sirius had to run away (idk the ending) and I was destroyed
I'm glad Prisoner of Azkaban is one you really liked, its my favorite in the series and i was hoping you would have a different opinion on this one compared to the others! and Hermione stays a queen!
Hermione should be treated better
Cindy: I'm so mad that I enjoyed Harry Potter.
Me: I'm so happy that you enjoyed Harry Potter!
Seriously, though, the first two books were pretty boring for me as well, but you might start getting more into the story from now on, the characters get way more interesting and the plot thickens too.
Thats funny, I thought there was so much going on in the first two books that even though Ive watched the movies growing up (several hundreds of times) and the third was really boring and bitchy Imo
@@maemae527 That's interesting! It's funny how you can find completely opposite experiences within the fandom.
Irene Alegría yeah! With such a huge (and growing fandom as the readers have children and pass the movies and books down on them) I love to see everyone’s opinions on the books
I almost cried laughing when I was listening to your Snape rant. He is literally The Worst. I also agree with you in regards to the HP series & plot: I reread the first Harry Potter a few years ago and it definitely felt slow paced. I do think Prisoner of Azkaban is where the pacing picks up and the plot gets deeper/darker overall, so you're in for a fun ride to the end of the series I think!
16:44 HOLY SHIT I'M CRYING
I wish Ron actually said that in the book😂😂
Your little rant about Snape really made my day😂 And I'm so glad you liked Sirius! I think it's impossible not to love him🥺
Also, you should read The Book Thief. 👀
Cindy, you're an angel without wings here to roast us for our sins.
yes i am
*kat and cindy post*
finals: am i joke to you?
I'm convinced I've tapped into a parallel universe YT video. Like, I'm in one universe and this never happened in my own world, but I'm watching a grown adult trip on HP for the first time in a completely different universe where HP just came out like last year... even though there's movies and a whole heap of franchises. What? Who doesn't know a single thing about HP in 2020. This is fantastic, she's tripping about Snape and Peter so genuinely. LOVE THIS WWWWW
Males writing female character’s as cringy hmmm so nothing has changed
As a woman, I can also confirm females writing male characters is kinda cringy.
@@synflwr Writing is pretty cringy
Imperial Fister cringe is pretty write-y
@@synflwr 😂😂😂
When you say "light reading" and you pick up a 500 page book set in WWII 😯
When I say light reading I pick up a 23 page comic book with lots of explosions.
Cindy: I love his angst
Me: He’s not quite to his full angst yet but sure yeah well just go with it
When he's a white supremacist Nazi but he's also kinda hot 😍
Also I stan Cindy going in with spite towards Harry and then getting mad when she feels a single positive emotion
You may have already read it but if you’re loving some historical fiction, The Book Thief is a great read. It’s set in WW2 nazi Germany and made me bawl my eyes out at the end. I just loved it ❤️
2:10 I legit was expecting Cindy to say “from my perspective as an edgy female”
Not always, but more often than not, when my depression is becoming harder to manage, I come back to your channel because you make me laugh, and also keep my mind off of things, and also expose me to a different perspective. As I am a white cis gay man, I wouldn't necessarily always spot things that could be, not necessarily problematic, but let's say clumsily written. The perks and enriching thing that is to follow a variety of different creators.
Anyway. Being mushy and chessy. Insufferable.
Also (this video is awesome as usual, don't get me wrong), but I cannot stress enough how much joy you gave me, and how much hilarity ensued when I watched your rant on "My Pterodactyl Boyfriend".
"Even the Mom wants the Pterodactyl DICK !" -> that was and is to this day, such a mood.
I watched this particular video several times. It is so glorious.
Love from France bitch.
Today, all of the French D bow to you and to your gloriousness !
(well obviously I am slightly exaggerating (just a bit lol), but I like the concept and the disturbing visual it summons).
But an overall conclusion would be : all hail the D (quarantine man... don't ask)
Thank you so much for your kind comments! Hope you're staying safe over there in France
@@withcindy
If you want despair, you should read “A Little Life”. I read it and I was so upset that I literally couldn’t cry. I don’t have the words to explain how much that book hurt me. It was practically torture. I think you’ll like it 😊
Omg, yesss! I'm on the last chapter and I refuse to go further cause I'm scared to reach the end
Amy G. Dala I hate to say it but, you should be
@@jackmaheras9744 I know I should be 😭, I've listened to Booktubers grieve. The ending might just kill me
Spent my whole life trying and failing to be my own book’s edgy female character🤧🤧
when she said “it’s about the yearning!” my dumbass really thought she said journey pronouncing the j as h and i proceeded to pause the video because i was laughing so hard until i finally figured out what she said
“What really won my heart was Sirius Black”
“He’s my favorite character”
Me, a person who’s finished the series: *sigh*
Cindy. I'm 21 and I want to adopt you. 🥺🥺 Please say yes.
Yes
Wanna cry? I recommend A Song of Achilles!
OH NO IT DESTROYED ME !!!!!!
The Nevernight Chronicles is my absolute fave. I have a blanket and everything lol
Haha it just wasn't for me!
readwithcindy I get it 😂
"Jizzed over his writing" omg. That was a visual I did not need Cindy.
the main mood reading Harry Potter and the POA: "He not wrong tho"
Me: adores Nevernight
Also Me: Hi-key looking forward to Cindy roast the absolute shit out it
You inspired me to re-read the first two HP books for the first time in over a decade, and they definitely aren't as mind-blowingly amazing as I remember, but they will forever be 5 stars for me because nostalgia's a bitch.
Love what you love ♥️
This is me with her SJM videos. Like yeah I’m trash for the novels but I’m also ~~ S E L F A W A R E ~~ that they’re v problematic and too #woke
cindy being mad at snape is me when people said he's the best character in the series
"for now" 😂😂
Also I'm so happy u called Sirius a morally gray character bc usually people only use that for Snape but Sirius was more of that for me (while yes snape was a pathetic middle aged man tbh idc how the books justify him, there is NO excuse for an adult to bully children like THAT without zero rationale)
Can you like.... Not spoil shit for her? Actually? Seriously?
@@aimun5255 You aren't dense. You very clearly and blatantly implied, and if she has heard about certain things that may or may not happen in the future, let her find out and confirm such things for herself while suspension of disbelief is alive.
Sheghostly or maybe bc you've read it you're reading too much into it... but fine I'll edited my comment lest I ruin the experience unintentionally
@@aimun5255 Genuinely, honestly, that'd most likely be appreciated by her + everyone involved. Thank you xp
I never actually got around to reading the Harry Potter books despite being in elementary school when the series first kicked off.
Just never really appealed to me much because I always had a taste for more mature, dark, and gritty themes even when I was young.
I was that weird kids reading the Dune series un-ironically when everyone else was reading "choose your adventure," Goosebumps books.
...Maybe that is why I am so scared of worms.
Hm, i think an ok series nobody ever talks about is the School of good and evil. It does a really cool deconstruction of staple fairy tale tropes. However, it is aimed at a younger audience. I know you'll like the second book tho, won't tell ya why....
THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL is my FSVOURITE series ever i grew up on that shit and just adored it but the more i matured and the more i kept rereading the series i noticed more and more details and tidbits that a younger me didn’t even think to pick up on. it’s an experience and i just AHRCV such a good book series
@@ruuuuuuuuruuuuuuuuuuuu adding this series to my TBR!!
YESSS
HECK YEA FELLOW SGE FANS!!!!
*Cindy: enjoys the Prisoner of Azkiban and favorites Sirius*
Me: _she spittin straight facts_
(I didn't read the Harry Potter series till 2 years ago so I understand this completely)
Yep, characters are important. I can't read stories with bad characters, may the issue be how similar they are to each other or how they always seem out of character AS THE CHARACTER.
I like to have your videos playing in the background when I'm cleaning my room/doing anything at all because Cindy energy is get-shit-done kinda energy
Love that!
Cindy: Guys I swear I'm not a contrarian
Also Cindy: I'm so mad I like Harry Potter wtf >:(
"an assassin that's not like other assassins" feels like an attack on the Throne of Glass main chick (not wrong)
Would you recommend ToG?
Ray I guess it depends on what you’re looking for? I’ve only read the first 3 in the series. The first one was fun, the second and third I really liked