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borscht, think about the books from a child's standpoint. they love them. they think they're well written, which is all that matters, since j.k. rowling's intended audience was children.

no matter if they are mainstream or not, its still not right. the man was invading their personal privacy. and its disgusting. he does deserve a good kick up the backside.

8iamhappy8, i strongly disagree with you. the fact that young girls and adult women want to experience this is not the SOLE reason for harry potter's success and neither is the fact that people are merely curious about what its like to not have parents to nag at you all the time. harry's losing his parents was a tragedy and people should not take experiences from that. even if harry had no biological parents telling him what to do, he still had sirius black, remus lupin, molly weasley, arthur weasley, albus dumbledore, minerva mcgonagall, and rubeus hagrid to tell him what was right and wrong. even the dursleys had a part in his upbringing. you forget, many boys read them too. they are good books for children to read. you should read my previous post about this topic.

rajakumar, they're fiction. i personally have read the books and they are very well written novels. kids devour them because the books take them away to a world where they can escape to and dream to be something incredible. all kids have dreams. rowling's was to write a book and here she has seven bestsellers. the plot is the point. its the classic good vs evil. did anyone condemn lord of the rings or the chronicles of narnia? no. they encouraged kids to read them. why not do the same with harry potter?

should we hate them for pearl harbor?

most people probably do. a friend of mine read this article and agrees selling the sand is wrong.

e8istanf, we should be ashamed as well for nuking two of their cities. americans shouldnt take sand (why sand of all things, i do know thats all there is left on Iwo Jima, but still...) just to sell. for personal momentos, i could understand that. to sell? never. japan has every right to feel indignant because of this. they also should hate us for the a-bomb.

okay, where in the world do they get that selling the sand from Iwo Jima conveys the battle history? its not like the sand can talk. and America has a wonderful book relating the history of the flagraisers and the battle and many other books as well. selling sand does nothing for history except go in the history of your pocketbook.