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Very In case this article is the first thing you're seeing on the internet today, it's been 20 years since the first Harry Potter book was released. As the book (and subsequent books) grew in popularity, you'd be hard-pressed to find a negative review for Potter in its two decades on shelves. Many early reviews were in print form and not even archived well on the internet, and the earliest digital hot takes were -- predictably -- that the series was overhyped (see below). So in the spirit of nostalgia and to 20 (and more) years of Harry Potter, we revisited some of those very first, pre-hype Sorcerer's Stonereviews, below. Harry Potter also has echoes of children's classics Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia. With the help of a noble if nitwitted giant, a few inept but big-hearted student magicians, even a concerned if somewhat distant centaur, Harry takes on powers bigger and stronger than him, growing older and wiser in the process. You don't have to be a wizard or a kid to appreciate the spell cast by Harry Potter.