Okay, touching on several points:
- I found the portrayal of Harry's mentality, particularly in books 5, 6 & 7 to be almost painfully accurate considered against my recollections of my own teenage years.
- Young boys are silly, immature and ineffectual. And they do benefit greatly from guidance ... though they rarely enjoy it. Some do grow out of it, I've stabilized at ~13 myself, with fluctuations of about +- 2 years.
- "Girl germs" are properly known as "cooties"
- If a story doesn't engage a person's interest, it doesn't really matter how well it is or isn't written, nor how good the story is or isn't. There are a large number of extremely well written stories with great plots that I have absolutely zero interest in. Those I've read that fit that description were pure torture to get through (well, mostly through
). That isn't so much a comment on the books, as it is a comment on my own interests and personality.
Well, that's my 2¢.
