Have your reading habits or those of anyone you know been changed--or created--as a result of the Harry Potter books?

Have your reading habits or those of anyone you know been changed--or created--as a result of the Harry Potter books?
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Nope. My sisters both read the books, they enjoyed them. I never touched them. I don’t like fiction. I don’t know anyone that started reading just to read the series, and I don’t know anyone that read them that wouldn’t normally care to read that sort of thing. I think that’s what you’re asking.
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