Am I the only person who thinks that Harry Potter is a pile of crap?!

I refer you to all the stuff earlier in the thread about muggles being an analogy for people who have lost all sense of wonder... and the fact that it is a pretty classic hero myth that tries to play things a little differently but in pretty obvious ways... and it takes a tone to adults of 'this is what fiction for children was like way back when, remember?'

There are just things about Rowling's agenda that are not supposed to be overt about the stories but which kind of are.

To contrast a DB book is like someone going... "Look I ripped off all this neat shit from an alternative history book AND PUT IN CAR CHASES!" which is endearingly dumb.

Okay, all you people who say you've read the first book or seen the first movie and therefore hate Harry Potter:

Read the second and third books. They're much less childish and much more complex, especially the third one.

Keep your Harry Potter.

I'll stick with Tim Hunter and "The Books of Magic."

I've never seen or read anything Harry Potter related....well besides this thread.

Pretty good stuff, but after Gaiman's first 4 issues I lost quite a bit of interest.

There are people on this plant who don't like Harry Potter. Everyday I am amazed by something. This thread is one of them.

I am amazed by people who can't spell "planet".

maybe he actually lives on a plant