It could have been, but it was also the cultural event of the year... and it was a book. I grew up in an era when "bestsellers" were written by the likes of Har

It could have been, but it was also the cultural event of the year... and it was a book. I grew up in an era when "bestsellers" were written by the likes of Harold Robbins, so to see a genuinely massive popular attachment to books of the (variable but always good) quality of the HP series was a wonderful thing.