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Two questions:
1. Will there be classics in the future -- books (and poems, and plays) from distant past generations that there is a semi-consensus are better than most of today's? My impression is that it is becoming less common to assign works, written more than a century ago, in American high schools, but I could be wrong. And even if I am correct, classics could make a come-back
2. Is the Harry Potter series great literature, whatever we mean by that? I've only read one of the books, and didn't think so. Of course, just one person's opinion.
So Potter has two big hurdles to climb over before becoming a classic. One is that society would have to value old books, and the other is that society would have to value that series.
If it did become a classic, there might be a semi-consensus that one book in the series is Rowling's Hamlet, Jane Eyre, or Middlemarch. Does anyone here have an opinion on which stands out, and, briefly, why?
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