Hey, this is turning out to be a good thread!

Anyway, I add my voice to Penny's, Sophocleese, I'd love to read what The Globe and Mail said a while ago comparing Harry Potter to the Narnia books by C.S. Lewis. I also found the kind of overall tone very similar. I had thoroughly enjoyed the Chronicles of Narnia as a child; I find that attempts to read them as an adult are stymied as I am no longer oblivious of the overtones. But I first read Harry Potter as an adult and found nothing nauseating in it; I wish I'd read them as a child! I'd be a maniacal fan, not just one who found a discount hardback version in a doctor's office waiting room ...and took it ...which I don't even usually do with magazines. I'm trying to get up the courage to give it back, but I want to reread it first!