Back in June I read Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and hated it. I still hate it, in fact, but I'm a lot more positive about Harry now that I've read the third, fourth, and fifth books of the saga. Harry Potter just doesn't compare to Philip Pullman's trilogy, His Dark Materials, but I don't hate the series any more, and I have to admit that I'm quite curious to know what happens next.
I wish I'd remembered and found time to blog about this earlier, since I finished the last Harry Potter more than a month ago, because now the only thing I really remember is that the characters have become rounder since the third book. They're still not very complex, and the villains are all flat of course, but even old Snape has got some moral justification (and sympathy from me) now for his hatred of Harry. There's enough for me now to believe in Harry as a person with emotions and motivations rather than a stick-figure for Rowling to push around the pages.
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