Now, when I say that I hate all the many tedious thousands of pages of all the works of J.K. Rowling, I say so while only actually having read, in all, about four, possibly five, pages. I can do this, and be tolerably certain that I'm still being fair to Ms. Rowling's dreadful prolixity, because the random sampling of what I have read was so bloody stupid and awful (as before described), that it is impossible that the rest of 'Harry Potter' could be any better or different: You don't have to eat the whole fish to know it's rotten. This goes, of course, for all bad writing, but especially, and in spades, for bad female writing.