There was an interesting article on COURAGEOUS NERD a while back (OK -- quite a long time back! July last year in fact!!), looking at YA fiction of the early noughties, and how the Harry Potter books changed the YA world and paved the way for other authors to follow in its slipstream. You can check it out by clicking on the following link: https://courageousnerd.com/2023/07/31/jk-rowling-and-6-other-innovative-ya-authors-of-the-2000s/

In the author's summary at the end of the article, he states: "Without JK Rowling and Harry Potter‘s impact, the YA landscape would not be the same."

I absolutely agree with that -- Harry Potter made publishers far more willing to push YA books, especially those that were on the edgier side, and certain authors (such as myself) enjoyed a level of success that we very likely would not have enjoyed if we'd published (or tried to publish) our books several years earlier.

But the author also said: "JK Rowling’s success with Harry Potter inspired other authors."

And I actually have to disagree with that, at least in my case. I'm sure the Harry Potter books DID (and still do) inspire lots of other authors, but I'd actually written most of the books in my Saga Of Darren Shan / Cirque Du Freak series before I ever read one of the Potter books -- indeed, I think I was well into my Demonata series too. They certainly were on my mind when I was creating my Archibald Lox series, and I think you'd find strong traces of them (along with the works of other authors, such as Dianne Wynne Jones, Ursula LeGuin, Neil Gaiman) if you were to compare those two series. But my noughties books, while absolutely enjoying a huge Potter push in terms of sales, actually featured pretty much no Harry Potter-inspired DNA!!