Ok, maybe I should be talking to Discworld fans about this (this is a Discworld site, after all) but I adored Harry Potter. Maybe it was just the fact that I did read them as a small child (I was six, yeah) but I always loved them. I think someone else said something about their inner child but I didn't need my inner child when my outer child was hooked from the first chapter.

I've reread them so many times over the last eleven years that it may be regarded as slightly insane. I had the biggest obsession ever until it was replaced by a different English author who turned out to be even better (Pratchett, of course). But I still hold a very special place in my heart for Harry Potter. It was the first ever book that I truly loved and it started my adoration of the written word (which shows no sign of abating).
Sure, the idea of an 11 year-old beating a dark wizard is a little unbelievable, but the books work. He's just crazily lucky. Go with it.

Oh, and I hate the movies. Despise them in fact. Less now than i used to, but still. They ruined it.

I also find it a little funny that people said (somewhere further up) that HP was hard to get into. Because that's exactly the argument that one of my best friends says when I tell ask her to read Discworld ^_^ sorry, just funny.

"Against one perfect moment the centuries beat in vain"
- Wen the Eternally Surprised, Thief of Time