I know what you mean there, Harry Potter is just amazing!
I see what you mean about not liking vampires, in some stories they make then look like blood sucking creations, eeesh! However, in some, they make brilliant characters out of them like in the House of Night series or the Vampire Academy series.
Anyway, I like then both because they are from the section of fantasy that I love. This is going to be a topic that we can really get into eh?