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I am/was likely far too old to be in the target demographic for Pottermania but they never worked for me. They always felt a little... safe, reactionary even as they drew on a long tradition of British boarding school books without really addressing or undermining the genre tropes or even using it as a means to examine that culture. It then wasn't a surprise to find out the author had some questionable views didn't seem a great surprise to me.
It came out when I was 9, so I was part of the target demographic, though I didn't pick it up til I was 12 or 13 because we read it at school, though by that point I had read most of the Animorphs books, so potter came across as very tame and a bit too childish. I was already dealing with themes of war and genocide and existential crisis and everything else Animorphs threw at you.
I was the right age for it too, read the first book at school, saw the first movie at some point. It never clicked and I never understood the fervor.
I had the first 4 books and read them around ages 11-13, reading the first two before the first movie came out. I think because none of my classmates at the time had read or watched anything relating to HP, I never really talked about it, so I set it aside after finishing Goblet of Fire, which coincided with the Lord of the Rings movies.
To me, it felt like I was leaving behind a story for kids and getting in on the "real good stuff for adults"