@stavvers People forget how huge things like Animorphs were, Goosebumps, the entire genre of choose your own adventure books that took the ball from D&D and ran with it through millions of kids imaginations, and then there's comics, the explosion in popularity of manga... People want to defend Harry Potter because they like it and can't just be honest about that, they need to reinvent it as revolutionary and their continued support as necessary for future generations of kids, as God knows, they won't just read something else.