Jane Galt, literary analyst

Jane Galt has a go at figuring out why the Harry Potter series hasn't been as good as it could have been:

Recently, kicking through some internet archives, I found that Kieran Healy had put his finger on the source of my lingering disappointment with Hogwarts and company. "Harry", he wrote, after finishing the Order of the Phoenix, "has been licking the lead paint at Privet Drive."

Harry acts like an idiot, and not the normal sort of teenage idiot who thinks they are the immortal centre of the universe. Harry’s idiocy is sui generis. Who but Harry Potter, having been given a wrapped gift by his beloved godfather with the words "use it if you need me", would leave it unopened at the bottom of his suitcase and instead break into the evil head teacher's office when he wanted a quiet chat? What sort of a nit can't figure out that when a wild giant keeps saying the word "Haggy", he wants his half-brother Hagrid? Or guess, for tiresome centuries of pages, that "Tom Marvolo Riddle" might be an anagram for "Lord Voldemort", when the seven-year old sitting next to me in the bookstore picked up on the resemblance a few scant minutes after opening The Half-Blood Prince?

Her suggested revision to the ending of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is brilliant.