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Originally Posted by littlemissattitude

I think the main factor is that kids, who often feel quite powerless, enjoy reading stories about kids who have some sort of power that the adult world doesn't have. As for Harry's popularity with adults, I think the attraction may be that same vicarious feeling of power, only for the grown-ups it's the attraction of having some sort of power that the "mundane" (read "real") world doesn't have. How many of us have wished, at one time or another, that we could get a boss to quit talking at us or something similar?

Just my two cents.

I still attempt the 'Jeannie Blink' every once in a while. It hasn't worked yet but I haven't given up hope