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I realized I should clarify something. Despite what I just posted, I really did enjoy the first Harry Potter books and have re-read them several times. Rowling isn't actually a bad writer, unlike certain other popular ones *cough-stephanie-meyer-cough* she just got too carried away towards the end and no one seemed to have the spine to tell her to her face that she needed to do some serious editing. But the Harry Potter books are still very enjoyable, and I can think of a lot worse things for kids to read.
There are lots of ways for a book to be "good". I read trashy romance novels, I read books about Conan the Barbarian, I read Dostojvskij and Voltaire, I read Tolkien and Jane Austen, and I love and enjoy it all, but for very different reasons.
Sometimes greasy junk food really is what we want and need, sometimes it's caviar and expensive wine. And as long as we enjoy every moment of it, who cares about hollow things like "quality" or "prestige"? We're adults. That means now it's our time to decide what that means.
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