[Dianna]

Rowlings did a good job getting children to read, but it seems that they’re unfortunately reading the books the same way they watch a sitcom on T.V. I think that unfortunately the ending (especially the ridiculous epilogue) pandered to this lazy reading style.

People will read and understand it at the level they are capable of. Personally, I think the child readers of today will be delighted to find new and more intriguing themes as they grow up and re-read.

[Accygirl]

I find the fact that fourteen/fifteen year olds cannot even skim the surface of a book and even articulate a theme from a book that brodcasts it as loudly as HP very disturbing and speaks very poorly of American culture. I expect most fourteen/ fifteen year olds to be able to understand Shakespeare.