Just getting into the series at the age of 25, and it's hard.

Well, it sounds like you maybe would have liked it better when you were younger?
Because the first few books were written for pre-teens.

Each book is written, for the most part, from Harry’s perspective. Harry turns 11 at the beginning of the first book, so the reader views it through the eyes of an 11 year old boy. I was impressed that I could really notice the difference each year - that in Book 5, it really felt like the perspective of a 15 year old.

But maybe this just isn’t your cup of tea. That’s ok, too.

I didn’t start reading the books till I was 41. I only started reading it because my son who is not a big reader started reading it. I wanted to be able to discuss the book with him. I started chapter one late one night and next thing I knew it was an hour and half later! I couldn’t stop reading. I quickly became obsessed. My grandmother read the books as they were released and she was in her late 80s. She was a big Harry Potter fan.

They actually get much worse over time. The first two are the only ones that really feel magical at all. The third one starts to get ridiculous by adding silly things like time travel, and then the fourth one and beyond become progressively more absurd. Same with the movies. The first two are pretty good, the third one is a mixed bag, and then they really start to suck after that.

As for their literary value, I think they are quite shallow, they borrow (or even steal) many tropes from other famous children's literature, and I think people only like them because they didn't (or in the case of children, don't) enjoy school and Hogwarts is a representation of what real-life education could and should be. The central theme of these books is actually not about Voldemort and how he killed Harry's parents or anything like that; it is that school is fun.

Well judging by your short attention span I'm not surprised.

I was around your age when I read the series(I worked in a bookstore at the time). It was fun enough at the time. The midnight releaseed were fun because kids were having a good time. It doesn't hold my interest now. The first movie was pretty cool for a kids movie, but I didn't care for the rest. The last two were awful. If they just stopped using all the slow motion, it could have been an hour and a half long. Not a fan to be honest.

I never wanted to read the books. I started to watch the Series when I was 40. And right now I'm 60 and I'm starting over with the Series. Oh yeah.

I quit the movies after I watched the 3rd one. First one isn't bad. Charming.

I couldn't read more than a few chapters of the first book. Terribly written. I have read a few YA books and they can be good. The HP book lacked any level of literary sophistication at all. An eye-rolling read. Perhaps OK for someone learning English or for people who don't read books or someone's first book they ever read (but there are tons of better suggestions. FAR better).