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C'mon Potter bashers, let us see you resist this paragraph

Harry Potter is more than the sum of its parts. Some of the book is so moving that three of the four listners were reduced to tears. J K Rowling is not the world’s greatest stylist, or creator of characters, but her unparallelled plotting ability combined with her breathtaking ability to convey layers of emotional meaning and intensity, not on just one theme but on many --- sacrifice, love, fate, hate, death— is pure Greek tragedy. If that woman doesn’t get a Nobel prize when book seven is finished, then there is no justice in the world.
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Thanks for the link. I somehow missed that. I was busy studying and roaming around the "much-adored" author's website trying to crack the WOMBAT.

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