For whatever the reason, this is one phenomenon that I have missed completely (and mostly, I suppose, on purpose). Now, do not take this to mean that I dislike these books. I do not. I have a colleague who feels anyone over the age of twenty-one caught reading a Harry Potter novel should be executed without trial,35 but that strikes me as unreasonable; the fact that they’re written for British thirteen-year-olds probably means they’re the right speed for 90 percent of American adults. I don’t hate these novels at all—in fact, I suspect they’re good. Moreover, I find it astounding that the
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