
It is not hard to nitpick such a sprawling literary work as Jo Rowling’s Harry Potter septet. The characters are many, complex, and develop over the course of seven years, many of them through the emotional chaos of puberty. The narrative is a complex and interwoven mystery, made all-the-more plastic by the magical context and Ms. Rowling’s peerless ingenuity. It is hardly surprising that fans of the series point to books that were weaker than others, characterization choices that rubbed them wrong, slain characters they wished had survived (or vice versa), and plot details they might have spun differently had they been Ms. Rowling’s editor.
But nitpicking it is. There are only two truly abominable parts of the otherwise magnificent ouvre.
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