The True Meaning of the Harry Potter Series

[doddiemoemoe]

No: HPFGUIDX 175004

Bart wrote:
> 	People here have been asking what the Harry Potter series 
means. Well, I can tell you what it means.
It means that nobody in the Rowling family will have to work for a 
living for the next few hundred years.
> 	Bart

Doddie here:

The series is probably the most significant literary event in this 
millenium thus far.

Can literary critics rip the work to shreds?  Absolutely..

Has any work in the past 200 hundred years had such a widespread, 
international fan base? (doubful in my opinion)

Did she write a compete story? yes in my opinion

Did I like all the components to the story--nope..

Do I think she developed all the characters as she needed to 
complete her story? YEP

Do I think she developed all the characters enough to reach  where I 
thought the characters could have ended up? NOPE

But JKR has never written a perfect book for me...but she has 
created a story with characters who have grown and whose themes have 
gained depth in a way that kept millions reading...and in my opinion 
will keep millions more reading..

Yes, there were some things I disliked about ALL of her books, but I 
kept reading I wanted to know the rest of the story...

She did warn us in the beginning that the books would only cover 
Harry from age 11 to 17... epilogue doesn't need to be there at all, 
but she put one in anyhow..

I enjoyed my "potter-distractions" over the years and still do...I 
read and reread 4 to six books per week(most often not of the potter 
variety)...I always float back to read some portion of the potter 
series..It just takes me to some other place..who on earth can read 
Fred and George's feats in book five and not have a smile on their 
face afterwards?

To escape my world even for an instant would be worth more than any 
millions or billions JKR would have made. She deserves all she gets.

And of course her kids will work, just like she works and her 
husband works..not because they have to, but because they want to...

Doddie,
Who has never experienced another author write a character that gets 
under her skin quite like Snape..and still loathes him anyhow and 
considers it quite a feat that JKR was able to endear Albus Severus 
to her in the epilogue despite one of his namesakes, whose name 
still gives her the shudders. I'm secretly glad Harry got something 
that I did not...gives me a griphook feeling LOL)