20 years later, people are still spellbound by Harry Potter

Two decades after the first Harry Potter book, the spell is unbroken, says Jonathan deBurca Butler.

TWENTY years ago today a bespectacled boy wizard took his first tentative steps into the world’s cultural conscience with the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Seven books later, Harry Potter had become a phenomenon. JK Rowling had lured millions of readers with her wordsmithery and bagged herself a tidy £60 million (€68m) along the way. We asked some well-known Irish Potter fans what made the series so magical for them.

Matt Cooper, presenter, Today FM