Harry Potter as a "Classic" Series

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No: HPFGUIDX 172382

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Katie" <anigrrrl2 at ...> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
> 
> Well, I think I only posted 4 times before now, so hopefully, the 
> List Elves won't get me!
> 
> I hear some people saying they'll never read the series again and 
> some other such nonsense. Why? Would be my question. Now that I 
know 
> HRH makes it through, I can't wait to read them ALL over again, and 
> share them with my children and my grandchildren...
> 
> These are classic books, on the level of LotR and Narnia. At least 
> to me. This is a classic story, and she stuck to the appropriate 
> happy ending. I saw someone else had quoted Bilbo on this point, 
and 
> I agree. 
> 
> Of course the book wasn't perfect. No book is. But she has brought 
> magic back into my life, and made me remember the best of myself at 
> moments when that seemed unlikely, and these books hold a lot more 
> whimsy AND profundity than most adult novels I can think of. 
> 
> It's a classic, no doubt, that will be read for generations. At 
> least in my family! Cheers, Katie
>

Claire:
Katie, I completely agree with you.  They are classics, and the fact 
they are, perhaps, flawed does not detract from that at all, not for 
me at least.  They are full of magic and not just the kind where you 
wave a wand or speak a spell to make things happen.  They're magic 
because they transport the reader out of her mundane, Muggle life 
into an emotional realm that makes things possible.  They entertain, 
instruct, touch each one of us in different ways.  And they have 
brought a disparate group of people together, adults, discussing 
passionately a group of "children's" books.  If that's not magic, I 
don't know what is.