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I'm a middle school teacher. What the Twilight books has done for reading on the middle school level was never accomplished by the Harry Potter books. Last year there were so many kids reading the Twilight books that the library couldn't keep them in stock and the waiting list was unreal. Lots of language arts teachers resorted to buying copies to loan out to students. I read the books myself and I enjoyed them. I wanted to be able to talk to my kids about them. (I love vampire stories and have read everything from The Southern Vampire Stories- Sookie Stackhouse to the Vampire Finishing School books by P.C. Cast which I loved and the Vampire Diaries which I wasn't that thrilled about.) I saw the movie Twilight and enjoyed it for what it was. I will watch the Vampire Diaries on tv. All in all, anything that gets our kids to read is a plus in my book. Although Twilight is not my fandom and I have yet to read the Potter books (have seen every movie however), I would never make fun of or mock another person and their fandom of choice. I am not into Anime or gaming but I know many like those areas. It is not my place to put someone else down. As I tell my students each day, we are all human with our own likes and dislikes, it is not your place to put your likes off on someone else or to put down someone else. Who knows, getting to know the person who is different from yourself might teach you something.