Orson Scott Card & Harry Potter

[Sarah]

"Unlike Pokemon or the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Harry Potter
movement is reader-driven. Kids who thought they hated to read because
they had hated everything anybody tried to make them read in school
suddenly became avid readers of big thick books that were
extraordinarily demanding, not just in vocabulary and syntax and
culture, but in moral reasoning and character development."

Isn't this what I have been saying for ages (although,it has to be 
said, slightly more eloquently than yours truly).  But it's not just 
kids - its adults like me too who would have never picked up a book the 
size of GoF or OotP.  JKR has truly opened a new window on the world 
for me, and now I can't get enough.   Thank you Jo.
Sarah xx