Why do people say Rowling is a good writer

Fuck my friend brings me to this channel full of people who treat the Harry Potter series like they're important modern literature.  And when told that J.K. Rowling is a poor writer, they say shit along the lines of "in comparison to who? Shakespeare!?"

And Jesus, older kids and adults who treat them like they're not children's books.  A friend of mine met a young girl who told her that she "reads mature books, like Harry Potter."

Until this last book, I had thought that the series was greatly overrated, but the final book was incredible.

I still think it's going to get more credit than it deserves, but that's just how popularity works, isn't it?  It isn't distributed evenly, it all clumps together.

It's clear that her writing improved throughout the books, as the last few books were far better than the first, but I would argue that the Harry Potter series, as a whole, should become a classic to rival LotR, or any other "classic".

True, LotR had a better writing style, but the Harry Potter books had, in my opinion, a far better story, more emotion, more developed characters, and more of a message.  Of course, the HP books were far longer, thus allowing more opportunity to accomplish all of these things, but that really doesn't matter at all.

It's also true that the Harry Potter books can be enjoyed by a younger audience, which is, I believe, the real heart of all this anti HP crap.  Since these books can be read, and enjoyed, by both younger and less intelligent people, there is less of a sense of smugness to be had from reading these books.  To those of you that don't consider these books to become a classic, are you really just upset that you can't gloat about having been one of the few who read these books?  The only validity that I can see from all of this animosity is that many of the people who read these books wont be able to grasp many of the deeper themes, and will clog any meaningful discussion about them.  While this is annoying, it really shouldn't matter.  Once these damn films are out of production, the whole HP fad will die down, and these books will be able to become classics.