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Are there any particular plot/theme/setting elements you liked about Harry Potter that you'd like to see more of?
For example:
Magical families sending their children to special boarding schools for training (and also boy who turns out to be born into a predestined position of great power): Diana Wynne Jones' Chrestomanci series, especially The Nine Lives of Christopher Chant.
"Hidden" magic secretly practiced by children discovering they're wizards amidst the mundanes of our "own" world: Diane Duane's Young Wizards series, starting with So You Want to Be a Wizard.
The Chosen One and his predestined quest to find the doohickey and save the world against the ultimate evil which has been dominating it for far too long: certain David Eddings' series (well, all of them, but only the Belgariad/Malloreon and the Elenium/Tamuli series are reasonably well-written and decently entertaining; people say his books go downhill after that).
Boy with great powers is born and kind of squabbled over by various factions who want to use him for their own ends but eventually finds his own way, with a little help from his friends, and it all takes place in England in the late 20th century: Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens. Pratchett's Discworld books above are also generally excellent and highly recommended. Your mileage may vary for Gaiman; I love his short stories and his graphic novels, but his regular novels tend not to do it for me.
And so forth.
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