I mean, my experience was that I was fascinated by it and really read it a lot of times, because hey, it's good kid slop, especially if you want to feel special and your life outside of the books you lose yourself into is less than ideal, so dreaming that maybe you're special too, and can be whisked away to some magical life is really appealing. But as a grew up i got interested in other things, and then i became disinterested in those things, and so on. Character development is a thing, s'all i'm saying.