Lunella wrote:Harry Potter has movies, but I don't think it's ever been as discussed as Twilight. Popular-probably, but I haven't seen people flame at other people for not reading it/loving it.
I'm guessing that you're fairly young then, or you would probably remember the insane Harry Potter mania when the series was about halfway through being published (the books, not the movies, as Harry Potter gained most of its fans through the books first). Back then, there were massive flame wars over whether Snape was innocent or not (huge campaigns everywhere of 'I trust in Severus Snape' versus 'Snape is evil'), which book was best, who Harry should end up with, whether Draco was evil or misunderstood, how it would all end, whether Remus was better than Sirius, etc. I would actually say that Twilight is nothing compared to Harry Potter in terms of how discussed and prevalent it is. On top of that, Harry Potter is still around and being discussed now, and has been continuously for the entire thirteen years since the first book was published.

As Meyer herself said: "It's terribly flattering to be compared to her, but there's never going to be another J. K. Rowling; that's a phenomenon that's not gonna happen again".