Everyone who say they cannot let go of Harry Potter and fully boycott Rowling You know.... My whole town (200k people) managed to do that!
We used to have a Harry Potter Festival during the national harvest vacation. There were all kinds of stuff, quiddich tournaments, exchange money to HP money in the bank, make your own wand, people dressed up as figures from the books, show your house colours etc. And they even got the cathedral to play the theme melody every hour.
Then rowling and her croonies went after the city and asked for money. (There was no money, because everything is mainly volunteering or small creatives selling their art. We do a lot of volunteer work in Denmark.)
Did everyone bow down and say that Harry Potter was too important to stop?
No! Of course not. We don't need Harry Potter.
Now it's called Magic Days.
It's filled with local/national folklore instead. Local trolls and Elffolk, old stories about local witch craft and rune magic, local spellbooks, potions and herbs that we have stories about from the last 500 years. You can get your magic element alignment, if you want house colours. There's unicorn riding tounaments and live rollplayers and viking and medieval reenactors dressed up and acting out whatever they want.
We don't need harry potter. You don't need harry potter. Do better.
(It's in week 42, everyone's welcome, most of the events are free, but some you have to pay for materials or to reserve a space )
