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" Arguably, J.K. Rowling's books can be placed in a lineage of British art that includes the film If, the Molesworth books and Pink Floyd's The Wall, in which adults represent forces of totalitarian repression, crushing the anarchic juvenile spirit. This romantic notion makes perfect sense until you hit the age of twenty and realise the grown-ups were right all along: children are insufferable freeloading little Napoleans, who strut around the place as if the world owes them a living and, if left unattended, instantly turn their surroundings into a cross between Mogadishu and Thorpe Park. Someone should have slippered the magic out of Potter on day one." - Justin Quirk