Originally posted by Capo de La Cosa Nostra:
Harry Potter, or "the HPish stuff", is about as insightful, enlightening and enjoyable as King Lear, as long as there's an avid passion for it. Or, rather, King Lear is about as flat, ordinary and crap as Harry Potter if there isn't a passion for it.

If any novel is studied -- that is, not only read, but actually discussed by the reader (and it doesn't even have to be in an academic way) -- it immediately merits intellectual engagement of some sorts.