Harry Potter has seemingly become one of those cultural touchstones that is immune to criticism. Not that there aren’t Harry-haters – there are, but they generally get chalked up as curmudgeons out to ruin everyone else’s innocent good time. But Robert Winder has serious concerns about the craze, and they aren’t just literary. For one thing, the “crass commercialism” of the series has become suffocating. For another, is it really wise to be giving kids one more portrait of the modern world as a place where good and evil are clearly defined, when all our energies are engaged in trying to make sense of a world dominated by gray areas?