[xsmommy]

lotta backseat tusseling in Natrona Hts back in the day... ; )

i never read any of HPotter. xsbrownie doesn't like anything remotely dark or scary, so it is not for her. xsteen has read them and i got her the new one this weekend, but she isn't a dork about it like most of her friends are. Personally, my beef is with anything that glorifies and glamorizes the occult.

[Explorer89]

My 9-yr-old finished it yesterday. I dunno, doesn't feel so much like occult as just Fantasy genre. I've read the same story a hundred times before. Any kid that uses HP as a bridge to Satanism was probably headed there anyway.

Now, you want scary....I read "The Amityville Horror" in about two days when I was 11, and THAT was a mistake. Did not sleep for at least a week. That was horrible because it really did feel like the occult. Ugh, still gives me the willies.

[NicknamedBob]

"Personally, my beef is with anything that glorifies and glamorizes the occult."

But it wouldn't be much of a tussle for you to read something that glorifies and glamorizes sex, right? Us aspiring writers wanna know.

[patton]

All the backseat tusseling around here went on at either Fort Marcy Park, or Lady Bird Johnson Park...

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I've heard the discussions on both sides regarding Harry Potter - We have had movies and stories for years that insinuate magic or the occult - "The Wizard of Oz" is a highly acclaimed movie that no one seems to have a problem with - TV shows "Bewitched" and "I Dream of Jeannie" were popular with many - How about Grimm's Fairy Tales - good Lord, people throwing their own children into a forest to die alone, then the children murder a witch!

Harry Potter is written along the lines of good triumphs over evil - it is fiction, not a how-to book.

I just don't see why some have made such a big deal out of it when they probably have read Hansel and Gretel to their own children.