I remember when my son’s school did it. He went as Captain Scarlet because he liked those books. Every other single child turned up dressed as harry potter.
THERE WERE GOOD CHIDRENS BOOKS AROUND BEFORE THOSE ONES CAME ALONG YOU KNOW!!! SOME OF THEM ARE ACTUALLY A LOT BETTER THAN THE HARRY POTTER STORIES!!!
But it gets the children reading. Yeah and so does giving them books other than harry potter and reading them with your chidren instead of giving them an xbox controller and leaving them to it.
Machine gun them (the parents, not the children obviously – Children make useful foot soldiers for my army of scorn).