![]() ![]() While written for young readers, the series offers adult readers much to enjoy and to admire, especially the intricate storytelling and the myriad allusions from literature, history, mythology, and contemporary events. Along the way, Harry learns and uses the valuable lessons of friendship, honor, discipline, adherence to principles, and the ultimate power of love-both to save and to redeem. Harry’s story is the classic battle of good versus evil, with the fate of the whole world hinging on the outcome of each encounter with the evil Lord Voldemort. If you haven’t read the series, you owe yourself the treat. ![]() If you’ve read the series, now is a good time for a second visit to the world of Harry and faithful friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger like most readers, you galloped through the text at such a rapid pace that you missed things, and by now, you have forgotten even more. In 2010, the opening of a major theme park and the release of part one of the movie version of the final book attest to the series’ enduring power to grab and hold a reader’s attention. So phenomenal was Rowling’s seventeen-year journey of writing and publishing, that the reading world will likely never again see anything to match it. Rowling published the seventh and final book in her best-selling series about a young wizard named Harry Potter. Books Worth Revisiting: Harry Potter A little over three years ago, J.K.
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