Harry Potter 1-7

No summaries here. Having set out on re-reading the entire series, I discovered three things I had not been aware of previously. The first: The Harry Potter books are vigorously literary. Meaning that they contain language quite above the head of a 4th grader, and contains levels of description not unlike the epicness of Tolkein's Ring, but with the flow of a detective novel. The second: Each book does get progressively better, as Rowling becomes more and more comfortable with her characters and each one approaches a realness that can only be attained by their repetition to become people. The third: The construction of the books within an exciting context is frankly masterful. And as I knew before, but solidifies with a retread over old material: Rowling's novels contain no profundity, but truth beyond that of most writers. Rowling is able to construct characters so real that they become aspects of life rather than letters placed one after another. The truth that Rowling evokes from pages is not only more important than most other books: which have political or personal value, but the books evoke such a range of emotional and practical material, that there is much to be extracted from it. The series is frankly a masterpiece of fiction that, in its appeal towards children, has found its own limitations based on subject matter. It is nevertheless this silly subject matter being elevated besides itself that allows for the books to be so cherished.