I really, really wanted to like this series. But the constant "HEY BY THE WAY WE'RE PARODYING HARRY POTTER HEY LOOK HERE'S ANOTHER WAY HE'S LIKE POTTER HEE HEE GOSH LOOK A SCAR" just killed my suspension of disbelief.
Hopefully it will tone down and just become more generic-children's-fantasy so I can read it without too much meta bogging the story down.