Harry Potter has always been one of my favorite book series. It is a book that I read very young and can continue to adventure back to. The originality and the world itself has always appealed to me, and in many ways so has the simple moral compass. I believe the way the book views morality is what makes it so well adapted to the minds of children. It is easy to understand who the 'good' and the 'bad' guys are, though it does leave some characters who are ambiguous throughout the plot. That element has always made me enjoy the book, the fact that characters like Snape and the Malfoy family are essentially characters that struggle with other matters that go beyond simple explainations like whether or not they are good or bad. They concentrate on love and fear, and fear is the element that I find most interesting in the Harry Potter novels. It is always in the background, and later in the books it is the foremost feeling one gets as they read, that everyone is in constant fear and anticipation of the battle that comes at the end of the seventh book, as well as the constant battle that rages throughout the series.
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