Understatement: "The Harry Potter books are not rebellious."

“They were giving their childhood to this woman! They were starting at seven, and by the time they were sixteen they were still reading bloody Harry Potter — sixteen-year-olds, wearing wizard outfits, who should have been shagging behind the bike shed and smoking marijuana and reading Camus.”
 — I feel you, Alan Taylor, but you can’t fight the Harry Potter Industrial Complex.