Poll: Are Harry Potter Fans Really That Annoying?

[xXAsherahXx]

Today, I went and saw the very last Harry Potter movie (I know, it made me sad too to see the franchise end), and I discovered something. Harry Potter fans are SO annoying. I don't mean the ones that see every movie, I mean the ones that see every movie a billion times and talk about them everyday as well as the books and differences in the colors of the actors hair etc.

Every 10 minutes in the theater, I heard a quick recap of what's going on, or a "yay, it's (insert character here)" or a "boo, it's (insert character here)"

Even before the movie, I went shopping for some new shirts since I desperately need some new clothing (thank you for asking why, it's because my shirts are all rags now), and these fans walked in all psyched about the movie like they were about to crap themselves.

I'm a monumentally huge Star Wars fan, talking about the series every damn day, but only to others that share my interest. I don't force it on everybody like many Harry Potter fans.

Anyways, this is probably one isolated experience because it's the end of an era, but more to the topic...

Are Harry Potter fans this annoying to you in your experience?

Yes, I'm a very mean person

 

[Kahunaburger]

Are Harry Potter fans this annoying to you in your experience?

You're gonna get this experience whenever you see any movie with a substantial fanbase the week it opens.

 

[xXAsherahXx]

Are Harry Potter fans this annoying to you in your experience?

You're gonna get this experience whenever you see any movie with a substantial fanbase the week it opens.

When Episode III came out, I saw it three times, the opening day wasn't terrible, the people treated it like a performance at a high class theater, clapping at the beginning and the end of the movie. There weren't too many nerds (surprisingly, although I was and am). This movie was different, perhaps because I'm the outsider looking in.

 

[Kahunaburger]

Are Harry Potter fans this annoying to you in your experience?

You're gonna get this experience whenever you see any movie with a substantial fanbase the week it opens.

When Episode III came out, I saw it three times, the opening day wasn't terrible, the people treated it like a performance at a high class theater, clapping at the beginning and the end of the movie. There weren't too many nerds (surprisingly, although I was and am). This movie was different, perhaps because I'm the outsider looking in.

Yeah, but by III the Star Wars prequels had pretty much been accepted as, well, the Star Wars prequels. If you had seen Phantom Menace opening night, your experience would have been pretty different.

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

Are Harry Potter fans this annoying to you in your experience?

You're gonna get this experience whenever you see any movie with a substantial fanbase the week it opens.

Quoted for truth. Especially when the event is the last movie in arguable the biggest world renowned franchise in the history of both literature and cinema that has been a constant for the last decade. Of course people were going to take it to extremes.

All obsessives are annoying to people who don't share the same obsession, and speaking as a huge HP fan (though not as bad as the ones you seem to describe) we can't be worse than Twi-hards can we?

 

[ZeroMachine]

EVERY god damn franchise has these people. I'm like you, OP. I'll talk about Halo or Dragon Age or Chrono Trigger or what have you to anyone I know is interested. But if I know they aren't at ALL, I won't.

But there is always, always that group of people that just doesn't shut the fuck up about it. They give us regular fans a bad name, really.

 

[Strain42]

Yeah, all fans have their extremists. I'm something of a Harry Potter fan, and I've met awesome fans and fans I can't stand.

For what it's worth though, out of all the book geek groups I know of, I think Harry Potter fans throw some of the funnest parties.

 

[Mallefunction]

Pfft, I'd rather have that then the people who are only sorta fans. I had 13 year old brats behind me who LITERALLY gasped when the guys took their shirts off and when Ron and Hermione kissed. Then in the bathroom afterward, they were GOBBING about how good it was, but how they literally didn't know what was going on since the books were "OMG, SOOOOOOOOOO boring!" and the last movie they saw was the Prisoner of Azkaban.

Seriously, they make me embarrassed to have a vagina...

 

[xXAsherahXx]

Are Harry Potter fans this annoying to you in your experience?

You're gonna get this experience whenever you see any movie with a substantial fanbase the week it opens.

Quoted for truth. Especially when the event is the last movie in arguable the biggest world renowned franchise in the history of both literature and cinema that has been a constant for the last decade. Of course people were going to take it to extremes.

All obsessives are annoying to people who don't share the same obsession, and speaking as a huge HP fan (though not as bad as the ones you seem to describe) we can't be worse than Twi-hards can we?

Twilight fans? Oh no, they occupy a whole new plateau of annoying. Like, Jersey Shore annoying.

 

[Deacon Cole]

All fans of everything are just that annoying. They need to learn to shut up when no one cares.

 

[shrekfan246]

Are Harry Potter fans this annoying to you in your experience?

You're gonna get this experience whenever you see any movie with a substantial fanbase the week it opens.

I'll pretty much just go with this. Anything with a dedicated fanbase will have that group of people who just can't accept that maybe, just perhaps, quite possibly, you don't like "Generic Space Saga Romance Movie: The Movie!" as much as they do.[footnote]Film used in quotations is for example purposes only, no such movie exists nor was it meant to relate to Harry Potter.[/footnote]

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

The fans who write the fanfiction are the worst, in any fandom

I still have mental scars from My Immortal

 

[Anaklusmos]

Yeah, I had this girl in my class who would accept no criticism of the Harry Potter books or films. Basically, I liked the Harry Potter books and I dislike the films because I don't feel they are true to the books. So I was talking to my friend about my concerns for the new film (Part 1 was coming out soon) and she started screaming at me because she was listening in on my private conversation, she started saying words like masterpiece and beautiful and how if I ever insult the franchise again she'll hit me... no she was not joking and she was 2 years older than me... then she cuts into my conversation with my friend to talk about how great the film will be and how the special effects are so amazing, better than anything she's ever seen before.

I've got a few more stories like this about hardcore Harry Potter fans, so yes I do find them annoying...

 

[Doclector]

HP fans just seem to get overly excited.

There are far worse fans. *coughtwilightcough*

 

[Necator15]

You really do get this from any franchise. Twilight and Harry Potter are the most popular right now, so that's what we hear more often. That doesn't mean other fans can't be equally annoying, Star Wars and LOTR fans come to mind immediately.

If someone is a fan of something you don't care about and they won't shut up about it, they're annoying. That just seems to be how it works.

 

[Zantos]

I think that I know more annoying HP fans than any other type of media, but if I let fans get in the way of me liking something I'd be sat in a cold windowless room staring at a desk with no computer on it.

 

[InterestingKiwi]

Your poll is a little biased with it's choices.

But to answer your question, yes they are, in my experience too. I've been to the Star Wars Ep 2 and 3 midnights (I'm 23, ep 1, and earlier I was too young for.) Saw LotR trilogy at midnight, and all Harry Potters opening night or midnight.

However, I forgive them for one reason. In my experience, most die hard fans grew up with the books/cast simultaneously. The majority of people every year at the midnight releases were generally the same age as me. Yes there are plenty of people older, and plenty younger, but the majority was your high teens/young 20 year olds. It's like we're actually a part of them, so naturally feel more in to it.

With that said, I do nothing of your stereotypical harry potter fan, I just understand why they do what they do.

 

[CATB320]

Tons of people on my facebook page are going on about how their childhood is over, and how they sobbed through the whole movie. It's annoying to me because I liked the Harry Potter series, but I moved on for the most part. I'm not really that sad that the movies are over because the book series was done a long time ago. Harry Potter was a part of my childhood, but seriously, guys. Chill out.

 

[Konatacalypse]

Pfft, I'd rather have that then the people who are only sorta fans. I had 13 year old brats behind me who LITERALLY gasped when the guys took their shirts off and when Ron and Hermione kissed. Then in the bathroom afterward, they were GOBBING about how good it was, but how they literally didn't know what was going on since the books were "OMG, SOOOOOOOOOO boring!" and the last movie they saw was the Prisoner of Azkaban.

Seriously, they make me embarrassed to have a vagina...

I shouldn't have laughed as hard as I did at this.


All fandoms have their bad apples. At least the bastard children of HP's fandom are fewer then that of twilight's.