BTW, I did follow that Wiki link, and read the whole article.

You obviously either read only the criticisms in the first section, or read and then ignored the number of positive comments in the later sections, from people like Steven King.

It seems that positive and negative comments were about evenly divided, and there was a suggestion that the criticisms were based in intellectual snobbery, something in which you seem rather well versed.

I posted the link unadorned, in the full knowledge that it contained some favourable references to the Harry Potter books as well as some remarks agreeing with me. Credit me with having the honesty and straightforwardness to do that instead of selecting just the bits that concurred with my opinion. When I posted the link I didn't say, or imply, that the whole world agreed with my take on the series: I said, simply, I'm not alone, far from it.

The trouble is, Don, that you don't listen to what people are actually saying when you don't want to, once you've taken against them. It goes all black and white. It makes it so that there isn't enough ground for us to have any sort of conversation. Too bad.