I read all the books as a kid. Didn't like the movies at all, they somehow drained all the whimsy I had enjoyed. I can say I'm proud that even as like a 9 year old kid I picked up easily on how weird it was Hermione's friends were mocking her for trying to end elf slavery. I also hated how frequently characters were described as fat in a negative way.

I feel like I came through ok, because while I liked the books, I never involved myself in the wider fandom and I never made it part of my identity. They were just some books I liked among the piles of other books I liked. I thought the massive fandom with webrings, fan art, fanfiction, etc was really weird and unwarranted. The utter obsession with the series always creeped me tf out. I just thought the books were fun and cute. I liked the games too, some pretty good Gameboy titles.

My hometown was strangely ok with Harry Potter. I guess everyone was still tired from saying Pokemon was Satanic, the previous children's fad, so they didn't have time or energy left to care about Harry Potter. My hometown was much busier focused on hating Muslims and gay people.