Why is harry potter so appealing???

The answer to this quation might sound trivial but i guess it is not so. I started reading hp8 in the starting of the year

(Pretty late to complete harry potter series!!) but it so happened that I had to leave it for a month or so (But how can

anyone leave it uncompleted??). When i thought of completing it, i was too lazy to start all over again so, I just flipped

through the pages and tried to recap the story.

That was when i realized why this story had attracted me (nd i guess oder people) so much. it's said that the harry potter

appeales to the imaginitive kid within us. But i think it is the suffering man within us that is attracted with it.

Ridiculous that is sounds, it is surprising to see how much of our social and political set-up (World's a stage..) is

reflected in it. The attempts of the ministry to cover up the crime to prevent people from panicking, The dark forces that

discriminate people based on origin and kill them, the schooling system (Even harry hated to go to classes..) all connects

with us in a striking similarity. The most important feature is that it does not harm our perception of world in any way. It

just tells us that we are just one part of the living world ignorant of the wizards which have their own problems to deal

with. Hence, it makes it easy for our mind to concieve the picture of the new 'heterogenous' world without making any

deletions to the existing picture but just adding a few INDEPENDENT (yes, we don't know about their existance simply because

they r hiding from us) communities (Isn't this the same reason for the exitment about the illuminati and masons? ..). Doesn't

this seem different manifestations of Descartes' dream doubt??... (sounds a bit philosophical :) ).

On a more phychological (sry if spelling err!!) level, this appeales to the struggling modern man inside us. But the

question is, do SOLE heroic charcters like harry exist even now?? .. So, the exact parralism i am trying to explain seems to

fail . But in my defense, i feel that harry just refers to the reader (atleast i think so as i have a scar on my forehead and

we share the same b'day...). It gives the reader a new hope to fight the the war againt you-know-who (this really is 'you

know who' in our context!!).. I could exagerrate this by saying that the people who complete the book once they start it are

either voracois readers, or just weak hearted people (in which case i m none..)..

Hence what i feel is hp is just like riddle's diary that gives us what we want to read......