One quick comment, the Twilight series and Harry Potter are not even close to being in the same boat. Twilight is a gussied-up Harlequin romance with a vampire/werewolf twist. Harry Potter - well, you'd have to read the books. The earlier ones are more simplistic, but as the series goes on, it seems to develop along with its intended readers. They aren't the best books I've ever read - but they were entertaining, and better written than a lot of the dreck I've seen of late. The magic is more of a background - the books aren't about magic - they are like most adventure stories, about friendship, loss, bravery, powerlessness, survival. They just happen to take place in a world where there is magic. The movies are much more simplistic than the books - except this last one - which seems like it will be the closest they've come to a perfectly faithful adaptation of the book. Not to knock anyone's taste - but this *shit* has got more of a story than the latest "Let's blow up everything we can find while shooting everything in sight" movie....