Prayers of Adoration

The kids and I finished reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows the other night so I finally got to read Alan Jacobs’ review. I had been saving it and all other Harry-related stuff to avoid spoilers. Professor Jacobs’ review is very good. He passes over J. K. Rowling’s many shortcomings as an author and celebrates her strength, her ability to weave a moral universe. He pulls in Chesterton and his celebration of “penny dreadfuls” and says Harry is the same sort of thing, only better.

Here is J. K. Rowling herself saying she made the epilogue vague on purpose and then filling in some detail. It’s kind of an epilogue to the epilogue and most welcome.