Great article over at Christianity Today by Andrew Peterson. His experience with Potter is fairly similar to mine.
My take on the Potter Phenomenon:
Great but not perfect books. Good but not great movies. That is how I would personally summarize my experience with Harry Potter. Overall, Potter has been a great cultural experience, except for the completely crazy Potter fans who take things a little too seriously for my taste.
I do wonder, along with Peterson, how these books will hold up over time. My impression is that they will achieve a similar status to "The Chronicles of Narnia" which are cherished more by the beloved because of how they affected them personally (emotionally, morally, spiritually) than how worthy they were as literature.
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