Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A good idea that has no staying power

I read the first chapter online and decided I had to have this book. Upon reading the second chapter, I started wondering what I'd ever seen in the first one. While the book starts off strong, it immediately loses all its charm and is too full of its own cleverness to actually be funny. This reminds me of what Mad Magazine was like after they "Jumped The Shark" by losing Dean Martin and Dick DeBartolo.Near the end of the book I got a little more interested in the characters, as sort of a vicarious Harry Potter book. This is kind of a tongue-in-cheek "What If?" rather than an actual parody.I applaud the author for getting this published and also for trying to make an original story, rather than just a rehashing of the first four books, but ultimately this book is just not funny. It tries to be in the same league as Bored Of The Rings and Doon, but fails.