Hon,
I don’t know where or what planet you’re from but there’s nothing redeeming about Harry Potter.
Apparently you’re not a Christian so you won’t see why Christians are against this book series, Harry Potter. And no, Harry Potter is not like classic Fairy Tales.
The Problems with Harry Potter
Harry Potter and the Paganization of Children’s Culture
by Michael D. O’Brien
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But is Harry really all that good? He blackmails his uncle, uses trickery and deception, and “breaks a hundred rules” (to quote the mildly censorious but ultimately approving Dumbledore). He frequently tells lies to get himself out of trouble, and lets himself be provoked into revenge against his student enemies. He “hates” his enemies. The reader soon finds himself forgiving Harry for this because the boy’s tormentors are vindictive and mocking. In a consistent display of authorial overkill Rowling depicts such “bad” characters as ugly in appearance. She does a good deal of sneering at the Dursleys for being fat, and ridicules the oafish bodies of the students who oppress Harry. In these details and a plethora of others throughout the series, the child reader is encouraged in his baser instincts while lip service is paid to morality. In fact, nowhere in the series is there any reference to a system of moral absolutes against which actions can be measured. In a word, this is materialist magic, magic as a naturalized human power.
Totally OPPPOSITE of Christian values and beliefs reflected in old fashioned Fairy Tales.
The problem is not the presence of magic in a book, but how magic is represented.
http://www.lifesite.net/features/harrypotter/obrienpotter.html
“Totally OPPPOSITE of Christian values and beliefs reflected in old fashioned Fairy Tales.”
Actually, I’m pretty sure that, by definition, ‘Fairy’ Tales aren’t Christian. And could be more homosexual than anything in Harry Potter. *cough* ‘Fairy’ tale *cough*.
Red Riding Hood was a lesbian
1—No, I am not a Christian, so I cannot understand the American Christian viewpoint about thr ‘dangers’ of ‘witchcraft’, as if something as silly as Potter will turn a generation into tiny Anton LeVays....
I find it sad and narrowminded that Mid-Western Christians are seemingly proud that a great work like Hamlet is verboten...
NOWHERE else in Christianity,from Britain to the East, do Christians find Potter(or Halloween) incompatable with the Bible.
They see it for what it is: a bit of fun for children...
2—Paganisation?.....oh cripes a lordy.
I come from an ancient nation that had hundreds of years of pre-Christian civilisation(the Celts).And managed nicely enough thank you to create a civilisation of great art, literature and culture,where women and children were valued.
Civilisation didnt start and wont stop with Christianity,dear.