It's eight or nine years since I last had any dealings with Harry Potter, so I decided to re-read the series, bearing in mind that I despised the last book. 
 Book number one is a simple, quite charming short children's story which seems to have aged fairly well, and stands a reasonable chance of becoming a classic. Children of the future (or indeed the present), however, may be unimpressed by some aspects of the magical world, particularly the wizarding communication infrastructure. 
 The most interesting part of this re-read for me was that I found Harry to be a likeable interesting character.