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Not all HP readers are children though. I first read HP as a junior in college. My mom is also an HP fan. My point is that so many YA books are filled with sex, drugs, and alcohol and HP is not. Some girls wanted to start a book club at my school and I sponsored it. We did not meet for almost three months because they kept picking inappropriate (for school) books. I started searching for YA books and was floored and saddened by the choices! Let me set up the basic plot line of most new YA books: Very smart and very pretty girl who does not realize she is very smart and very pretty meets very smart and very handsome boy who does know that he is smart and handsome. Boy is also very mysterious and also somehow immortal (or a gangbanger from the other side of the tracks who is attracted to captain of the cheering squad). Their love is forbidden but they make it work - insert soft-core porn here - and everybody gets what they want in the end. Teen girls are swooning over this crap, and I call it that not because there is sex in it but because it is so poorly written. However, they are enticed by the soft-core porn that HP does not have.

Boy is also very mysterious and also somehow immortal (or a gangbanger from the other side of the tracks who is attracted to captain of the cheering squad). Their love is forbidden but they make it work - insert soft-core porn here - and everybody gets what they want in the end. Teen girls are swooning over this crap, and I call it that not because there is sex in it but because it is so poorly written.

Sounds a lot like the formulaic "romance novels" their moms probably read.