There was an episode of the Kirby anime that's a spoof of Harry Potter, complete with a visit by the author "Rowlin". It was part of the trend of praise for it making children like to read.
I was a hater as a kid just cause I'd read the first book when I was like 8 or so and thought it kinda sucked. At the time my thoughts were along the lines of 'i already have to go to school every day, why would I read about going to school in my free time?'. Then a couple years later Fellowship of the Ring became a movie and there were lines drawn between LOTR kids and Harry Potter kids in my school for a bit. I was the LOTR kid who immediately got the books from the library after seeing the first movie and struggled through em cause, while I was damn good at reading for my age, Tolkien's archaic word choices were difficult.