These books would be classified as fantasy, but could be classified as also romance, action, adventure, mystery, and sci-fi. It has romance when Harry falls in love with Cho Chang, a girl in Ravenclaw, another house at Hogwarts, Harry^aEURTMs school. There is action and adventure in every book (Harry fights Voldemort, discovers a werewolf, joins a tournament, etc,).
Mystery rises when a mysterious person rights with blood on the wall about murder. It has a lot of sci-fi like dragons, trolls, werewolves, and dementors (soul-sucking demons).
In the first book, The Sorcerer^aEURTMs Stone, Harry first finds out he^aEURTMs a wizard and finds out his parents were killed by Voldemort. He also firsts goes to Hogwarts, and defeats the spirit of Voldemort.
In the second book, The Chamber of Secrets, Harry goes back to Hogwarts for the second time and then a finds a diary, sees weird writing on the wall, and battles Lord Voldemort as a kid (his name was Tom Lorov Riddle).
In the third book, The Prisoner of Askaban, Harry finds out about Sirius Black, an escaped convict. He then finds out his teacher is a werewolf and Ron^aEURTM rat is actually an animagus, a person who can transform into an animal (Ron is Harry^aEURTMs best friend and the youngest of 5 brothers).
In the forth book, The Goblet of Fire, Harry returns to school and joins the tri-wizard tournament, a contest that only happened 100 years ago. He then gets transported in the middle of the final round to a cemetery where he sees Lord Voldemort get resurrected from the dead and Cedric Digory get murdered by Wormtail, Ron^aEURTMs rat in human form. In the fifth book, The Order of the Phoenix, Harry gets a new teacher, Dolores Umbridge, a teacher who is as sour as a pickle. She then takes over Hogwarts and bans Harry from playing Quiditch, a sport on broomsticks.
Then Harry and his friends travel to The Department Of Mysteries, the place where a prophecy about him and lord Voldemort is kept. He then battles Lord Voldemort and his death eaters. The last 2 books have not been released yet but the 6th book is to be called The Half Blood Prince. Each book gets thicker and thicker; the 1st book has 128 pages and the 5th book has about 800 pages. The author, J.K. Rowling, grew up in England in the Forest of Dean.
She is a graduate of Exeter University. Now she lives in Edinburgh. Her books have gotten the # 1 New York Times, USA today, and international best sellers, National Book Award (UK) and Gold medallist Smarties award three years running. She has also gotten the ALA notable books award. These books are really good and I would recommend them to anyone. They are great.
I would give them a 10/10. These books are so good; it^aEURTMs almost like magic..