The Harry Potter Debate

[Historian]

As is I see it just another piece of literature.

Bad literature, yes.

It's every bit as good a most classic children's literature, and one a heck of a lot cleaner than most of the stuff that's being produced for the middle-school/young adult age group.

Almost all literature written for kids and teenagers glorifies lying, disobedience, and cheating, and quite a bit of it includes magic of some sort.

The stories are bad. I thought so when I first read them. I was 10, at the time.