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"I'm extremely privileged but was also a bit of a nerd in high school. I am a true outsider."
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I think he's like 10 or so in the first book. Since kid's media tends to really work for kids slightly younger than the protagonists, I feel like someone would have had to have been in their later elementary school years (~3rd-5th grade in burgerland) for it to really take hold.
Middle school is kinda pushing it lol.
I know several people who are my age or older who have basically only read Harry Potter.
I've posted this before, but it still horrifies me. I know a couple who quit Harry Potter when Rowling publicly went full TERF. Now they exclusively read . . . Harry Potter fan-fiction.
I literally talked to this friend a few months ago about reading and he just said he was thinking of reading Harry Potter again.
I feel like shonen manga or superhero comics or just not reading anything would all be a step up from that