[HPforGrownups] Long live the Harry potter series

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 181520

> Funkeginger:
>
> I know since the DH most people have expressed a dislike to the
> series as a whole, but to think that the series might not speak out
> to the next genaration is rubbish.  I think the series will go down in
> history as one of the best ever.

Shelley:
I think it's a disservice to fans to say that "most people" dislike the 
series as a whole. The only "dislike" I've heard is limited only for the 
final book (and maybe Rowling's comments and revelations following), but 
certainly not the series as a whole. I know of no fan, who upon reading the 
final book, has suddenly turned their dislike and criticism of DH into a 
bash of the entire series. I think you are exaggerating the dislike for the 
ending, stretching into all that came before.

I think future fans and readers will do as we've done- find books 1-6 a 
wonderful treat, and then find book 7 to be a bit of a let down, for the 
same reasons that we have expressed our disappointment in it. As a series, 
it's a good one, just with a weak final book. It would have been nice to say 
that it goes out with a famously bang, but sadly, I think it goes out with a 
wimper.