Politics of Harry Potter middle class, especially whenever Harry confronts his ludicrously dysfunctional and downright abusive adopted family, the Dursleys." The critic Anthony Holden wrote in "The Observer" on his experience of judging "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" for the 1999 Whitbread Awards. His overall view of the series was very negative—"the Potter saga was essentially patronising, very conservative, highly derivative, dispiritingly nostalgic for a bygone Britain." A review in "The Guardian" echoed this interpretation and stated that "despite all of the books' gestures to multiculturalism and gender equality, Harry Potter is a conservative; a paternalistic, One-Nation Tory, perhaps, but a Tory
The Harry Potter Lexicon appropriates too much of Rowling's creative work for its purposes as a reference guide." In December, 2008, a modified (and shorter) version of Vander Ark's Lexicon was approved for publication and was released January 16, 2009 as "The Lexicon: An Unauthorized Guide to Harry Potter Fiction". The Harry Potter Lexicon The Harry Potter Lexicon is a fan-created online encyclopedia of the "Harry Potter" series. The site was created by school librarian Steve Vander Ark. It contains detailed information for all seven published "Harry Potter" books. The Lexicon lists characters, places, creatures, spells, potions and magical devices, as well as analyzing