I think J.K Rowling was always a better storyteller than a writer.

I think what you meant to say was instead of a writer Rowling is much better at taking someone else's work, giving it a good polish, re-packaging it and then presenting it as her own. There are endless websites that'll tell exactly where to find the "inspiration" for that particular HP book.

Even the name "Harry Potter" she stole from an old british movie called Trolls... which is why in book they kept bringing up a troll attack randomly, The movie gets a lot of air time in Britain and she wanted to people to associate her book with something familiar.

Personally I re-read those book last year and found them to be ok kids books. Nothing wow just something for like 9 or 10 year olds. The only one I liked was the third one and that's because I'm a big Terry Pratchett fan. The third book was a copy/paste of his Thief of Time and that finally explained a few random things like why she was trying so hard to bring chocolate to your attention. It's a plot point in the other book but here it's just random.