Nevertheless, not a strong role model for a young boy.
Hmmm, cares for his friends, has to choose between what is right and what is easy, intesnely loyal to those around him... Yeah, awful role model. Perhaps if parents who look at Potter as being the Spawn of Satan spent half as much time convincing their kids that it is fiction, and not something they should attempt (spells and potions and that crap), as they spent criticizing, we might actually get somewhere.
It gets kids to read, and provides a moral lesson in the end. I see no problem with it, provided parents teach their kids the difference between reality and fiction.
Hmmm, cares for his friends, has to choose between what is right and what is easy, intensely loyal to those around him... Yeah, awful role model.
Perhaps if parents who look at Potter as being the Spawn of Satan spent half as much time convincing their kids that it is fiction, and not something they should attempt (spells and potions and that crap), as they spent criticizing, we might actually get somewhere.
It gets kids to read, and provides a moral lesson in the end. I see no problem with it, provided parents teach their kids the difference between reality and fiction.