Harry Potter's popularity amongst the savarnas

I was never a huge fan of the books or the movies growing up but I got into it because everyone else was. And I revisited them again now and the underlying messaging is the fucking worst. I'm only gonna talk about broad strokes and the themes and not an in-depth analysis.

There's this arbitrary house system (kinda like caste) and one house is EVIL. Segregation of living and eating spaces. Only allowed to mingle in classes or during quidditch. There's so much subtext about ingroup and outgroup throughout the texts. First it's the houses, then it's the muggles, pure bloods and half bloods. Then there's the house elves who are slaves and Hermione getting ridiculed because she wants to help them out of slavery! Explanation is "the slaves want to be slaves"! Wtf!

The stratification of the society is justified while voldemort's actions are seen as bad for upholding the same faschie structures! Like why, it doesn't even make sense in universe. If anything it would make him more popular than anything else. But jk Rowling (may she rest in piss) has tried making voldemort cartoonishly evil so that you don't question the rest of the hierarchical systems as bad. And in the end the characters uphold the said hierarchy anyway.

No other young adult franchises have gotten this popular amongst Indians (Percy Jackson, hunger games were popular but not even 1/10th of cult following of HP). It doesn't help that these books are also insanely popular and more people are bound to find them and indulge in them.

These books have been extremely popular amongst Indians for more than a decade and I feel like these hierarchical systems and their preservation is one of the reasons it's so popular amongst Indians (esp savarnas). Maybe these hierachies give them a sense of familiarity. I'm not saying this is the only reason why people like them (the world building is pretty cool, I used to like it too) but this could be one of the reasons why people love it so much. This applies to global HP fandom, not just savarnas but there's no critical reading of these texts and any criticism is seen as redundant or "ruining the escapist fantasy" and it just doesn't sit right tbh.

Everything is politics, if someone thinks otherwise it probably means they're not the ones affected by the said politics