by Adelle Holmes

Created on: December 30, 2008

The Harry Potter books are my favorite and, frankly, I believe they are perfect the way they are. There is just the right amount of romance in the story."Just the right amount" meaning that there is enough romance without it being too inappropriate. After all, kids of all ages read the stories. Children's stories don't have that kind of affection in them. Thank goodness!

J.K. Rowling put the exact amount of romance in the stories that needed to be in there. We didn't want there to be no romance, that would make everything seem a little boring. But if there was too much romance then it would interfere with the story that really needed to be told. The story of how Harry Potter, the boy who lived, needs to rid the world of the ultimate evil: Voldemort? Does anybody remember that story? If there was all that romance then the main story would be forgotten and it would end up being a biography of the character's lives. That wouldn't be as boring as it sounds, but why mess with perfection?

I'm sure she knew what she was doing, those years when she started writing Harry Potter. She knew that kids would like to read her stories because don't all kids like to play witches and wizards? She even did so when she was younger. Even though the series has grown gradually darker in the later books, the kids have grown with them. There isn't that much affection that we need to call them adult novels. Just because adults read them too doesn't mean they should forget about the other end of the audience. The end filled with children playing witches and wizards. People of all ages and of all nationalities reads the Harry Potter books. J.K. Rowling, although she didn't know her book was going to be as popular as it is, must have known to tell the story to the general audience of everybody.

Recently the Harry Potter books have been taken off the bestseller list for the first time in a decade. What does that tell everybody? That the Harry Potter books are fine and shouldn't have the characters be more romantically involved? Harry Potter, after all, isn't an adult novel. If you want more romancially involved characters then read some books for adults.

Don't add more romance to the Harry Potter series. Don't change an already perfect book. Let them remain they way they are because if the book was anything other than what it is, would the world love them as much? If there was more affection in the series, would the books be worshiped as they are now? I don't think that they would be. Do everyone a favor and let the Harry Potter books remain as they are: perfect, loved by all ages, and not as romantic as some people think they should be.

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