Thread: Harry Potter--why???

Um, ok. I'll admit I didn't read the whole of your post. But the general gist of it, I get.

Harry Potter was ever meant to be a childrens' book. Read Roald Dahl? Yeah, it's not very logical either. It only just so happened that everyone else, regardless of age, loves Harry Potter, too. But she wrote it as a childrens' book.

I think her characters are genuinely very real. I'd love to get to know them. Or maybe I'm just an obsessive fan.

But she is very funny, she has me laughing at almost every chapter. You know, except the ones that have people dying in them and stuff. "There's no need to call me 'sir', professor." Hilarious. Fred and George...hilarious.

And I repeat what Isis said about magic not being real.

Rowling breaking rules about the magic and the Ministry thing: it was explained in the books. It goes along the lines of, the Ministry can detect magic, but not who does it. The Ministry can't detect if it's underage magic, just that magic is being performed. Therefore, the Ministry can't really tell if someone's doing underage magic - the only say they can be "sure" is if it's performed, like in Harry's case, in a place where only an underage wizard could have done it. The Ministry trusts parents to ensure that their kids won't use magic when they're out of school - Dumbledore's words. Read the sixth book again.