As a regular consumer of hard science fiction and an occasional dabbler in fantasy, world coherence is a big concern for me it distinguishes the exceptional from the merely amusing. The biggest difference between the reader I was in my teens and the reader I am today is that the latter can assess the overall coherence of a fictional world. As a member of the lucky generation that grew up with Harry and was more or less his age each time a new book came out, I thought this summer might be a good time to revisit this world and see what it has to offer a guy in his late twenties. It’s still a wonder she pulled it off, given the pressure she must have felt to avoid being tarred and feathered in the wake of an ill-received final installment. Rowling shocked the world by concluding the Harry Potter series with a book that delighted the vast majority of her rabid fans. A whole class of first-years could have graduated from Hogwarts since 2007, when J.K.
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