One of the tacit attractions about the hugely derivative, insipid and uninspiring narrative of the 'potterverse', is the way in which it wilfully entrenches a fake legitimation of England's toxic, quasi-feudal class system, along with all it's pre-existing prejudices and disdain for the supposed 'lower social orders'.

I like fantasy fiction, but derivative works stolen by standing on the shoulders of giants is barely worth actually contemplating.

It says something about the literary and educational attainments of the bulk of the English population, that they would have the effrontery to position it as being of any literary value. It says a lot when the fawning, sycophantic garbage declaim that it was this series of novels that taught their children to read?

Admittedly, this places their children above the literary and educational attainments of the parents, but in what sense can it truly be guaged as progress?