Utilisateur:Sandpiper

Hello apologies that I must introduce myself in English.

I happened to follow a link to the French wikipedia from an english wikipedia page on Harry Potter. I discovered that the articles here are very short, and indeed some of the most interesting content seems to be being removed. Any good article about fiction should report what other people think about the fiction. In the particular case of Harry Potter, the books have had unprecedented media attention, huge sales, and have made the author a dollar billionair. Actual traditional literary analysis of her books remains somewhat lacking, not least because all her books so far are part of an unfinished story some 3500 pages long. She herself is very unwilling to talk about them, although she sometimes says she wishes she could, because she is still protecting the storyline. Hopefully this will change in the near future.

However, she has also said repeatedly that she encourages people to speculate about the plot. She has recommended readers to view a number of websites where the books are debated, and from time to time drops helpfull hints to encourage the debate. Books about likely plot twists for the final volume are now themselves best-selling books with more copies in print than some 'literary' authors. It is important for proper coverage of the subject that this existing debate, grounded plainly in the already published books, should be explained in any article discussing the boooks and elements of the plot. That is not to say that I would take this to wild extremes, but some expectations about the last book are quite plain. I was disappointed to note that this wiki seems to cover them poorly.

Anyone wishing to contact me should leave a message on the english wikipedia.