Ew fuck him . What a mess . I would go hang out with your friend . clearly his brain isn ' t meant for reasoning or reasonable requests <| sep |> And why can ' t Harry Potter help students this age develop cognitive thinking ? These aren ' t teenagers we ' re talking about . I take junior and middle to be 13 and below , and Harry Potter is absolutely developmentally accurate for the younger kids to be reading , and also perfectly fine for discussing all of the literary elements you ' d want to discuss in an English classcharacterization , figurative language , plot development , theme and message . Harry Potter is actually better than the classics in some ways , because of the wide appeal it ' ll have to a majority of readers . It ' s cool that some kids like classic literature which , by the way , will still be in the curriculum , but getting and keeping kids ' interest is the first step to getting them to love reading , and Harry Potter is the perfect book series to do it .