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Originally Posted by GiRTh

If Rowling has no big a success as Harry Potter then she will be considered a one hit wonder. She may not be bothered by that but I think people will say it.

Well they can but that would be trying to put her down and criticise her for no reason.

She's not a one hit wonder because her subsequent work has hit the bestseller lists and gotten great reviews, it's just Harry Potter will always be the biggest success which of course it will be. She can't write a worldwide phenomenon time and time again. No reflection on her as a writer, it's impossible.

A one hit wonder constitutes doing one thing that makes you famous and then doing nothing or vanishing afterwards. She's not done that.

Having one thing you're the most well known for is not what one hit wonder means.

Al Pacino will be forever known as the guy from The Godfather and is probably his biggest success, but he still has some solid work outside of it. That doesn't make him a one hit wonder, it just means The Godfather is his most well known work.

Jk Rowling's writing itself isn't the best literature in the world but I find she's a solid storyteller.