Absolutely not. Strange situation.

American kids especially not realising how much of the book was just British (or more specifically, British boarding school culture) rather than specifically magical.

Boarding school friendship books have always done well in the UK anyway (Enid Blyton, Tom Brown’s School Days).

That plus the fact that there hadn’t been a “fad” phenomenon that was easily marketed for a while in that space.

When I was 11 I got "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time.

It absolutely spoke to baby autistic me, and I spent the whole of Christmas day morning engrossed in it.

I finished it by dinner time and was declared to have “wasted and spoiled my present” by - get this - reading it and loving it.