So at last

Tonight I finally finished Harry Potter. I used to be strongly opposed to this book, I figured it was only fair that I see it through to the end before I formed a final opinion. Well, now I've finished it. Before I give an opinion, how bout some summary?

This book is blatant propaganda. From the very beginning the messages are far from subtle. The depiction of 'Muggles', any non-magic people, is a very negative picture. They're stupid, lazy, vicious people. They play video games because they can't use magic, and all video games are "Super Mega slaughter III". Obviously video games are bad because they're only played and loved by fat non-magic people with vile tempers who are bully's. Magic people don't play them, therefore they aren't fat and bullying.

That's how non-magic people are. Now let's look at adults. The way that adults are depicted is fascinating. There are good adults, and bad adults, but in no case are there adults who are to be respected simply because they're adults. After all, magic makes you able to judge people on your own experience. So it doesn't really matter that someone is your elder and superior, you don't have to respect them unless they earn it. You can backtalk and be disrespectful all you want, as long as you're right, because they're wrong. This sort of attitude in books is one of the reasons kids feel that they can get away with it in real life. When the parents push their kids off and tell them to go read books like this, they absorb the ideas in it and start to see that it's okay to disrespect adults.

Politics: We'll save the surprise of Rowling's personal politics till later. In the book she treats politics with a sort of distance. She sees the government as a tool for bumbling idiots. It is an institution that can be easily corrupted, unlike wizardry. During the story she seems to indict the practices of most regime's, the suspension of Habeus Corpus, torture, unjust imprisonment. However as the story goes on, she indicates less and less objection to these methods, except as they relate to not killing people who might have useful information. At the end of the books the reader gets the feeling that the world is starting to unify in order to fight Voldemort....kind of like uniting the world to fight terrorism.

So, short list, globalist, disrespect for authority, magic makes you better. These are the subject matter problems that I have with it. Now we're gonna get into writing style.

Rule 1: don't reference real world things when trying to create a fantasy world, it destroys the illusion.

Rule 2: no fart jokes, no poop jokes, no butt jokes. It's crass

Rule 3: learn to spell and grammaticize.

Rule 4: don't build up the readers expectations and then in one chapter show them that what you had told them all along was a lie, and there was no way they could have anticipated it. That's the equivalent of saying the sky is green to a blind guy then going "Psyche, i got you, aren't you surprised? This is a plot twist, aren't I imaginative?" You should expect the blind guy to beat you with his cane and yell back, "No, that was cheap, that was dirty, you're a bitch!"

Rule 5: When your protagonist is in a particular bind, it's pretty cheap to magically have someone hand him the answer the minute he needs it. "Oh no! I've been studying for weeks how to make myself breathe underwater and I don't have anything. Oh, what's that random character who randomly overheard a conversation regarding a random object that we haven't told the reader about that will make me breathe underwater? I'm glad you told me that the morning of my test."

This list is not exhaustive. It's representative. This writing is terrible, I'm shocked and horrified that she was given an Hugo for this piece of crap. That's my opinion of this book, it's absolutely terrible. It's not even worth the paper it's written on.

By the way, have you guessed Rowling's political affiliation? She's one of the movers and shakers behind the scenes of the Labor Party. You guessed it, the wiccan supporter and propaganda machine is also a communist bitch. Surprise surprise.