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I’ve just finished HP7 a couple of hours ago and I still feel like I’m half-enchanted.

They’re not perfect books, by any means. But they are perfect reads.

What really struck me as I re-read HP1 and HP6, in anticipation of No. 7, is how brave JK Rowling is. How fearless a writer. Not always in a good way - she bravely overuses adverbs and cliche, for instance. But she also bravely plumbs emotions, wringing real pathos out of situations that many writers would gloss over.

Dismiss her if you like, but she really has made something extraordinary.

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