[Harmless Teddy Bear]

the celebrated fantasy author Philip Pullman, they are stories of racism and thinly veiled religious propaganda that will corrupt children rather than inspiring them.

Considered the stuff he writes he has no room to talk.

Philip Pullman is one of the reasons I caution the Potter Hysterics to tone it down.

He actually is everything they accuse Rowlings of being. His books are little more then anti-religious propaganda.

But with all the much ado over nothing that has been stirred up over the Harry Potter books you have a hard time convincing parents of that.

[TomSmedley]

Philip Pullman is one of the reasons I caution the Potter Hysterics to tone it down.

Pullman shows up in the Potter books, I believe, as the insanely narcisstic professor Gilderoy Lockehart. "Remember Cedric Diggory." Rowlings sees herself, I believe, as the heir of the Inklings, or at least as one who benefitted from their legacy.

[Rastus]

At least at Hogwarts, they still celebrate Christmas *as* Christmas. That's more than I can say for Anytown High USA.