Because it's popular, approachable, has a good adaptation to film, and timed the aging up of its narrative and characters to perfection, allowing readers from a wide age range to keep engaged with it as they developed their taste in fiction.
It's not high art, but I don't think it's difficult to see why it's enduringly popular
>and timed the aging up of its narrative and characters to perfection.
Which I think will be the thing that eventually kills Harry Potter. It grew up with an entire generation so they got super hooked, but intruding kids who can read/watch the whole thing is awkward.
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u/goldensabbath 12h ago
Why won't this fucking franchise just go away...