CMV: it is weird and childish when adults read Harry Potter
I would not try and stop someone from reading but I find it so much stranger when adults still eagerly talk about Harry Potter and read it in public. I know I sound like a hater, but are international IPs, while also bothersome, are on a “higher tier” for me. Take other popular IPs like Star Wars or Marvel. These undoubtedly have a large audience of children but they at least have some more adult oriented media and are not explicitly based for children as Harry Potter is a children’s book. For the record, I liked all of these growing up but as an adult don’t really focus or consume them anymore. Other books I’d argue aimed at children popular around the time of Harry Potter that people enjoyed like Twilight or the Hunger Games don’t have the same hold on adults talking and reading about them. Again, I think it’s a little weird for any adult to continue consuming children’s media (different if you are doing it with your kid to show them) but Harry Potter seems to be the most oriented for children consumed by the most adults.
EDIT: this also does not mean all children’s media is a lower quality than adult’s media. There are adult stories and media people could generally “graduate” to, whatever it may be instead of reading the same children’s book over and over again.