Harry Potter

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Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy books written by J.K. Rowling about an orphaned boy who one day finds out he's a wizard and so goes to a Wizard boarding school where he makes friends, learns magic, does magical sports, learns about his family and gets wrapped up in affairs involving a Dark Wizard version of Hitler called Lord Voldemort and his associated assholes (including a Dark Wizard version of the KKK against non-magical people and Nazgul rip-offs called Dementors).

The books sold really well, got a series of very popular movies which grossed higher than any other series of movies in history, probably got a fair bit of people interested in fantasy literature (given that they were mainly targeted to young adult readers) and generated a moderate amount of skub back in its day before the haters moved onto things which were more uniformly panned. In general the series has good characters (though there is not much to Voldemort besides "i'm an evil manipulative power hungry sociopathic bastard") but lore and world-building that is at best hit and miss. Not the worst gateway drug to the world of fantasy literature a young kid could have, even if traditionalists would favor Tolkien.

Eh, no reason you can't try both.

Harry Potter stuff relating to tabletop games

• Harry Potter and the Tabletop RPG
• There are up to several GURPS modifications for a Harry Potter-themed setting.