The Harry Potter books have a unique resonance with millennials whose growth mirrored Harry’s own.
Everyone loves Harry Potter. The series’ generation- and globe-spanning appeal is rivaled only by that of Star Wars. But the Harry Potter books have a unique resonance with millennials whose growth mirrored Harry’s own during the course of the seven original novels. I first read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone as a third grader, a few years after its publication; I was in my late adolescence when I read Deathly Hallows, a book that coincided with and felt symbolic of my generation’s entry into adulthood—these characters I had spent my entire youth with had reached maturity and were about to disappear (seemingly) forever.