Chatting with an old friend yesterday, we ended up talking about why do people like Harry Potter on the pretext of the book being so expensive. It's the fact that when we read about people with problems bigger than ourselves and elevated from the realm of reality, we find our problems smaller and our own heart breaks easier to deal with. The world seems less sinster and an easier place to like. ...Thats why fairy tales always have happy endings, as if as a matter of principles.. Thats why children never tire of hearing the same story again and again, because YOU KNOW things will be fine. The same reason we like bollywood movies (specially me, despite reprimand from all my friends and relatives). In real world you dont know whats going to happen, sometimes its ok to like things that are silly. For Harry its not magic that gets to our hearts but some thing else, more humane, more achievable, may be a little silly.. ..So that for some time we dont have to worry about our jobs, our boyfriends and their girlfriends, Voldemort is sinster enough to earn our hatred....