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...touseled hair, broken glasses, a sweet grin and a lighting-bolt-shaped mark on his forehead. While recent issues of the magazine have featured politicians like Bill Clinton and businessmen like Bill Gates, the cartoon face on this week's cover belongs to a fictional character. He is Harry Potter, the young wizard protagonist of J.K. Rowling's series of phenomenally popular children's books...
...surprise that kids love Harry Potter. Following in the footsteps of countless children's heroes, Harry Potter travels to a strange and magical place and finds adventure in a world with little adult supervision. As one father remarked, the freedom from parents in this story excites young readers, who identify with Harry as he makes his own decisions...
...Whatever the source of Rowling's magic, her books clearly captivate children. Alice Rose Henry, aged seven and a half, talks enthusiastically about Harry and his pals Ron and Hermione. As far as she is concerned, Harry Potter is "really great," and she often imagines herself as a student at Hogwarts, sharing in Harry's adventures...
...Harry's appeal goes beyond the children's audience. When asked whether she or her parents enjoy the books more, Alice responds with a devilish smirk and a giggle: "My parents like it more!...My mom always says, 'Don't you want to read Harry Potter?'" Indeed, in the Henry household, Rowling's books have created so much excitment that Alice's mother reports one family argument caused when Dad read ahead and finished the book before everyone else...
...Michaela's father Daniel says that he, too, has enjoyed the first two books in the series, "but I'm a little skeptical that I'll still be interested by books five, six and seven." Bosch notes that Harry Potter brings with him a host of commercial opportunites. "Halloween will be Harry Potter, Christmas will be Harry Potter and then the movie in the summer...