Hey! The Harry Potter books arent bad!

shut the ** up. i'd like to see you write a novel even close to the brilliance of Harry Potter.

Yes, the Harry Potter series requires a rather hefty dose of critical blindness. But nevertheless, the novels themselves have provided believable characters, not in their actions, but their reactions to the actions. They think like the target audience, and so the books have become fabulously popular among those whose perceived individual mediocrity is exemplified in the books as a 'good-thing.' As for Harry's consistent escape from Voldemort, I have to agree with you. It gets a bit too far-fetched, but then again, he flies on a friggin broom for a while.

Harry Potter sucks, but not for the reasons you mentioned. Description of that sort is fine, and who the ** says that a magical building has to be a building? The reason why Rowling is a terrible writer is her inability to outline her characters well, it has nothing to do with her descriptions, which are entirely adequate.

I agree. Good points made, especially about the Chamber of Secrets. She references only one or two things that Harry will face in the future (N.E.W.T.s and O.W.L.s) and... well, a lot of it doesn't make sense.

I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment, but I feel with regards to essay writing you let yourself down.

Since I've read all the books, I know what you're talking about, but for someone who isn't experienced in the world of HP your essay would be confusing and impossible to follow. You don't seem to use links between paragraphs, you just jump erratically from one idea to the next. This, along with your total lack of background information, are the main flaws in your essay.

That being said, your grammar and spelling were good (save for the typo in the second last paragraph), so nice job in that area.

One thing that annoys me no end about the HP series is that the magic system does not work. At all. The way I see it, the magic would either need to come from the people or the words they speak. If it's only the people (as Rowling hints in making "wizards" and "muggles"), then Hermione should be able to say "sausages" instead of random latin phrases, and have the same effect (eg. making a feather float) because the power is from the focusing of HER will.

However, the fact that they need to say the spells (and Harry used that spell in the 6th book that Snape made, with no prior knowledge of its use, and it had the same effect as when Snape created it purposefully), seems to say that the words themselves ared what provide power. In that case, why can't anyone be trained to use magic?

Which-ever way you look at it, Rowling's written herself into a plot hole the size of Australia. Plus, she said in an interview that she doesn't believe HP is a "fantasy" series - she thinks it belongs in a special genre of it's own.

To quote Terry Pratchet:

"I would have thought that the wizards, witches, trolls, unicorns, hidden worlds, jumping chocolate frogs, owl mail, magic food, ghosts, broomsticks and spells would have given her a clue?"

Daft auld bint...

(The page for the terry pratchett quote is:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4732385.stm )