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IS HARRY POTTER OVERRATED????
If Rowling would have taken her time and actually wrote a good concluding book for the series, then it could have been amazing, even with all the really horrible lessons it doled out [probably unbeknownst to Rowling, who could barely keep her own rules of magic straight at times].
But as it stands, HP:DH is the equivalent of a runner dropping the baton at the last leg of a sprint relay.
Anonymous User about 1 year ago
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I really don't think it is an overrated series. Any book which entertains in such a way that it can carry you away to another world and forget, for a little while, about the one you currently live in, I think that says a lot. I read the whole series out loud to my family, mostly as a favor to my then seven year old son, and now at nine, even though he is a great reader in his own right, he wants to continue our family reading time each night. All I can say is "thank you, Harry Potter!" for bringing our family together and giving us some great memories and experiences!
Shannon Hart 11 months agoI loved the series and think they were well written and are brilliant for getting children into books. I do not think it is overrated but feel that many people are perhaps too obsessed, their obsession verges on weirdness a-lot of the time. Particularly in adults.
Shonagh Mudie 10 months agoYes. They're great stories, very inventive, with lots of fun and lots of tragedy (the prose is pedestrian, but you can't have everything). But even so, the hysteria around them is surprising. They aren't THAT good. I just hope they don't get wiped out by a backlash when people start to cotton on that there are other good books too - some of them (dare one say it?) even better!
Paul Arblaster 10 months agoUnderrated, especially by the minds that even ask such a question.
When you consider the journey and accomplishment of JK Rowling, taking some borrowed/rented/stolen character ideas and creating a children's book that turned into a complete universe, and developed these characters over 7 books and 7 years (within the reality of the books), and the characters never became boring or repetitive, they developed and grew and changed with their times, as we do with ours.
Who's a lunkhead, now?
J. Walker Rugino 9 months agoWalker
Of course there are better books and that is the whole point; but look at it this way:
J. Walker Rugino 9 months agothe later books in the series are better books; she's teaching herself as she goes along. When she was in the coffee house writing Sorcerer's Stone, she had no idea she'd even have threads to weave, and wound up doing one remarkable job.
The best feature of the "getting kids to read" perspective of the series, is that there are so many more and better books out there to find, and it's like any treasure -- you don't find it if you're not looking for it!
Walker
Hey, Brandon; the last book had one point remaining, or so I thought: He Who Shall Not Be Named or He Who Should Wind Up The Hero? But even once that question was resolved, the small gracenotes at the train station telling of the afterlives of the characters you're most curious about were the pixie dust that made the whole series fly, for me.
J. Walker Rugino 9 months agoand it left me with questions to speculate about, about the school and the teachers and the rebuilding; the end, at the very least- and it accomplished so much more - reassured me that this did, in fact, happen, which caps the entire story with a future.
Walker
no, it is not! they are great and amzing books! one day they will be classics!
Claire 9 months agoThey are very much overrated, but still good, entertaining books.
Curtis 9 months agoNO!! The series is amazing, very well written. All the books tie in together, and by the last books, nothing is left unanswered. Each book makes you want to read the next to find things out. Excellent!
Facebook User 9 months agoNO WAY!!! Harry Potter is the best!
Paige 9 months agoof course not. its a book that i grew up with and loved. i felt that harry grew up with me! if u read it, u wouldnt question it
Hsing 9 months agoNo!
Mark 9 months agoOverratted? Not at all! Books that both adults and children can enjoy, what a novel idea (no pun intended). It's so refreshing to see children so excited about a book release instead of a video game.
Facebook User 9 months agoHarry Potter is totally NOT over-rated. This series is the best series i've ever read in my life. (If you wanna talk about over-rated books = Twilight, totally stupid)
Ally 9 months agoGreat children's book? Yeah, sure. A work of art? Definitely not. I really enjoyed the series, and it would have probably been even better if they were around when I was a kid, but I still don't think you can call it a "timeless classic".
Marija Srndovic 9 months agothese books will be around for a long LONG time and I'm very happy about that
David Wickham 8 months agoThe Harry Potter books are very well writen,but this last one seemed like the author had someone else writing with her. The characaters seemed to have totally gone threw a personallity change.
Rebecca 7 months agoI've enjoyed reading the Harry Potter series but I'm in no doubt that it's overrated - of course it is! The point is that people who hardly ever picked up a book before found something in this series that they liked; the books inspired them to read more, which can only be a good thing. However, I suspect people rave about these books so much purely because they haven't read much else, so they have little to compare them to, besides the books they were made to read in school. It's like the Da Vinci Code - it was the 'in' thing to read at one point, but it was slated by the critics. There's nothing wrong with Harry Potter or the Da Vinci Code if you enjoy reading them, but they're not works of literary genius. There are huge great waffly bits in Harry Potter where nothing seems to happen at all. I do find the obsession that surrounds books like these and Twilight a bit unhealthy, though.
Kirsty Hamilton 7 months agoI don't think so.. comparing to twilight. lol
Maloicha 7 months ago