Harry Potter Purists 

People who don't know anything about the process of a book to film adaptation. Clueless and idiotic "fans" who slate the Harry Potter films because they are "not like the books." These people fail to recognise that books and films are entirely separate mediums and entities.

They often resort to hating the director, not taking into account that there are other people involved in the filmmaking process, including the writers and WB Studios who place pressure on the team to adapt source material from a 700 page novel into a 2.5 hour film with budget constraints.

Potter purists lack any knowledge and common sense; they moan and whine about the slightest change, cut and/or addition in the films and are ignorant to the fact that such changes are necessary for the benefit of cinematic style and substance.

They also do not rate a film on its cinematic structure (EG editing, cinematography, pacing, score etc...) but on how much it was like the book.

Basically, they are generally a group of ungrateful haters, which Jo Rowling would be extremely ashamed to call "fans".

Such acts of purism from the Harry Potter Purists include:

"THE DIRECTOR IS STUPID! I COULD DO BETTA!!!!"

"THAT NEVA HAPPENED IN THA BOOKS??????!!!"

"THE BOOKS ARE SOOOO GR8, WHY CHANGE STUFF FOR THE FILMS!!?!?!?!?!??!"

Harry Potter Purists by Intelligent Realist. September 29, 2010

Purist

Someone who prefers the old way of doing things.
Someone who adheres strictly to tradition.

My mother is such a purist, she has to make everything from scratch when she cooks.

Purist by Spacecadet1980 April 16, 2015

Tally Hall Purist 

A Tally Hall fan who REALLY hates Chonny Jash and/or his music and will go out of their way to harass him or his fans

Someone just told me to kms because I said I liked Chonny Jash.
Ugh...What a Tally Hall Purist

Tally Hall Purist by buttersmutters September 7, 2023

old school purist 

One who is dedicated to the original and best version of various things. One who is not swayed in any way by trends, fads, styles, etc. of things. One who insists on high quality and is not interested in cheap knockoffs. One who detests all things that are inferior, even though these inferior things are hyped and promoted by the mainstream.

An old school purist who games would insist on playing the Original Dungeons & Dragons instead of all the later developed cheap imitations of the real thing.

old school purist by Dragonsfoot Member Since 2002 July 12, 2016

Album Purist 

Someone who listens to entire albums instead of just a few songs here and there. Person who follows albumism. Also albumer or albumist. Opposite of songer or songist.

Some album purist was aching me for buying a few songs off of iTunes.

Album Purist by J. B. Baby May 22, 2006

G1 Purist

A transformer fan who hates anything that isn't the original series. G1 purists tend to be quite annoying and unreasonable.

those G1 Purists really hate the 2007 film because of the redesigns.

G1 Purist by soundwave22 May 7, 2008

Pokemon Purist 

(n.) A shot of alcohol containing equal parts of Blue Curacao, hot sauce and Bicardi 151, which must be followed by the drinker's yell, "It's super effective!"

Pokemon Purists all 'round!

It's super effective!

Pokemon Purist by TheLoudestFan December 30, 2009