What's this have to do with anything? It's the basic plot for both Harry Potter and Star Wars; two detestable franchises from two different generations. What's worse than two geeks going at it with fake light sabers? I don't know. Maybe two more geeks twirling a wand about and screaming odd words at the top of their lungs pretending they can do magic.

The story-line between the Harry Potter books and George Lucas' Star Wars are so similar it makes me wonder if perhaps Mrs. Rowling didn't have Lucas on speed dial, so she could make sure her dialog was as cut and dry as possible, written in a slovenly manner that reuses the same formulas for story-telling over and over, and the same useless side stories that don't have anything to do with the rest of the book.

Mrs. Rowling's poor writing really shines through in her supposed close to the series, where many die-hard fans are upset by her story-telling. My question to them is why haven't they been upset all along? She's used the same cut and dry techniques, giving characters wooden dialog, bumbling about in a half attempt to tell a story and sum it up nicely… only to have written around 300 pages of nonsense before the whole book is over.

But it's just a children's book! Of course it is. That's exactly it. A children's book. The fact that so many adults have read the stories and acclaimed them as the best that the fantasy genre has to offer really sickens me. Especially when drivel disguised as a children's book soars high, while great works of fantasy, such as those written by Neil Gaiman, Terry Goodkind, and even Anne McCaffrey, pass under the radar of the same adults.

What about the movies?! What about them? They do well enough for the thinly veiled attempt they are to hide Rowling's flaws. The actor who plays Harry is going to have to try extra hard to keep that beard in check the longer the series goes on. Seriously. Children's books? Then leave them to the children. Stop going on and on about it because it's the first book you choose to read. Honestly. It's not that great.