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Originally Posted by HarryT
The Harry Potter books honestly are not written for 8-year-olds.
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I would agree. The first few in particular are certainly books an eight-year-old can enjoy fully - and the others are such that a mature eight-year-old would get enough out of them to enjoy them a great deal - but from the fourth or fifth one onwards, they're very clearly also aimed primarily at readers who are quite a few years older than eight.
And they can all be very easily enjoyed at any age.
Not that they'll appeal to everyone - there's not a single book out there that would appeal to everyone. But discounting HP (and multilayered middle-grade and YA books in general) as something "not for adults" by default is just, well, not the case.