Both Ron Weasley and Neville Longbottom ... seem to exist ... to make Harry's achievements seem all the more remarkable.

I had hoped to put off considering the movies until I'd read all of the books, but...

Target is selling Harry Potter place settings.

... for the first time, he admits ... that he understood the quality of his experience for what it was.

... the near-dismissiveness of the review is interesting precisely because of its cursory tone.

... it would be easy to analyze the qualities of character, and the proximity of any given character to another, as an element of drama ...

Thanks, Aldi!

I'd been prepared, when I first started listening to the Potter books, to acknowledge that they were of differing quality and depth, and ...

... a humorous article that maps instruction in magic at Hogwarts onto the Coronavirus isolation practice of distance learning.

This is what the Times ... had to say about Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

... might it not be worthwhile to engage in a little retroactive re-naming?

Daniel Radcliffe, is seen here reading he first chapter of the first of the Potter books.

... the Durleys, taken on their own merits, and invested with some sympathy, are understandable, if not exactly likable, characters.

The advice--offered metaphorically--is at least sound enough. Someone meant well.

Rowling introduces us to Harry and his story yet-to-unfold with the most trite materials....

I'm wondering, this morning, if it's fair to ask if Rowling deserves our sympathy...

I have a few guidelines that I've already set for myself. rules that define the work to follow...

And so I am organizing my thoughts, and organizing my thoughts about my thoughts, and setting out on a critical inquiry.

And so Harry Potter, at whatever age, is still living--and we live with him.