In case you reply before I edit, another paragraph:
If somebody said to me that they found Harry Potter far superior to The Magus because it spoke to them more, because they hold a personal love for fantasy fiction and how it inventively turns today's mundane education into some fantastical other world to which we can aspire and relate, then I have no problem with that.
If I said The Magus was better than Harry Potter because it had stood the test of time more, and was a more serious novel, I'd piss Potter-ites off; and in turn, I wouldn't respect anybody's opinion if they said The Magus was shit.
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