[Archaea]

The series a financial success, artistically is disappointing.

The author has the ability to weave an interesting story, but no ability to develop characters. The characters are all flat, and tell us nothing about ourselves or human nature.

She has a winning prescription for popularity, but failed to follow it up. The Harry you read about in the first book is the same Harry you find in the silly Epilogue in the last book.

Books One through Seven deal with an ordinary lad, who ends up having magical abilities of a wizard. He comes from a family that died but had links to the magical world. It traces his "education" in England at a school for witches and wizards.

There is a necessary conflict of good and evil. The pictures created by the author are vivid.

Each Book deals with each year in school up to Seventeen.

The bad guy is really bad with no redeeming features and the good people are mostly good with not much bad. Nobody, but nobody save perhaps some minor characters progresses.

All the characters are flat. Perhaps children can find richness in a repetitive story, but for adults, it's a little ride on the ferris wheel, but after you've got your feet on the ground, you think, "Geeze, she started out great but fizzled in the end. Here was a person who could have hit a home run, but made it big time on a smile and personal popularity."

At the end, a disappointment. Pop fiction will never know good literature.