HP on Sparknotes.com

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So I'm looking up stuff on Sparknotes.com when I come across 
SparkNotes (for those of you who may not know, SparkNotes are an 
online version of Cliffs Notes...kinda) for all four Harry Potter 
books! Now, I've always that SparkNotes does literature, but can the 
Harry Potter be categorized under the term 'literature'?

Has anyone actually, seriously, studied Harry Potter in a class? I 
have always drawn a strict line between 'literature' and 'fiction', 
and I honestly don't consider Harry Potter to be 'literature.' I 
guess it depends on your opinion. I think literature includes the 
literary canon, Shakespeare, Emmerson, Thoreau, Poe, and pretty much 
anyone who wrote a book and is now dead. The classics. Fiction is 
the stuff that's been published in the last 50 years, though there 
may be a few exception that I don't remember at the moment. That's 
my definition, anyway.

Just thought I'd share...Any thoughts?

-Acire, who is reading the SparkNotes because she wants to know how 
they'll analyze everything...