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Yeah, HP is probably the one of those three that was least "important" to me. I started falling out of it around the time of Book 7 even. It was a weird trajectory where my mom ended up being a bigger fan than me at the end of it lol. There were definitely moments that even as a kid rubbed me the wrong way - the easy example is Hermione, the House Elves, and SPEW where like... Hermione was objectively correct in what she was doing but the book clearly was trying to push the message that she was crazy/an irritant. Kid/young teen me didn't make the jump to equating it to protest/activism/status quo at the time but it just seemed wrong to me even then and just a weird thing to have happened.

Ender's Game/OSC was definitely the biggest influence for me I'd say. I forget exactly how old I was when I came across it, probably still elementary school and it was the first novel series I just fell in love with - bought and enjoyed all the sequels (and the accompanying Bean series) but I absolutely wasn't able to at the time understand many of the themes - I was basically reading and enjoying it at the most surface understanding (not to say there's anything wrong with that, but so much was going over my head LOL)

Kenshin wasn't exactly my intro to anime/manga (I'd credit that to Toonami as a whole more than anything) but it was the first manga series where I ended up buying all the volumes including eagerly awaiting a new volume release and I really enjoyed it and then... yeah, we all know what happened later.