Can Harry Potter conjure a generation of writers? Or, at least, readers?

The End of the Potterverse

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

by J. K. Rowling

Scholastic

July 2007, 759 pages, $34.99

[20 July 2007]

by John Mark Eberhart

McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

The End of the Potterverse

Six years from now, experts believe, some of those youngsters will be writing fantasy and science fiction novels themselves. And if America is really lucky, the Potter generation might be more literate than the one that preceded it.

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The End of the Potterverse

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