Posted on 01/02/2006 8:20:04 AM PST by anhonestchild
First of all I would like to add that I am a 13 year old girl and am not a parent. I have read all of the Harry Potter Books. With two parents that are devoted Christians I understand partially your view on the Harry Potter books but I respectfully disagree. To a young child the Harry Potter books are comforting. These people although portrayed as witches and wizards are well rounded people and little kids respect that. For instance if any of you have read the Harry Potter Books Hermoine Granger is a girl very dedicated to her school work and loyal to her friends. Why wouldn’t you want your children to follow in her foot steps. And dreaming of flying or casting of a spell isn’t a crime. Dreams are part of life. Also these books have very little to do with worshiping Satan. Just as in the movies “The Lord of the Rings” or “The Matrix” Harry Potter is a fight between good and evil. To a readers point of view especially a young readers point of view they dream of fighting the enemy not being the enemy which is what Jesus is “the hero” “the leader” and “the savior”. In these books Harry is “the hero” of the wizarding world. I understand it is better for a child to read about Jesus but honestly have you ever seen a child read the bible. The Harry Potter books relate to us and can portray good and evil at a young age. These characters can help guide your children’s point of view on how to act Harry Potter- a boy struggling to do the right thing and safe anybody he can. He is very dedicated to his friends and he is determinded to help any and all who need him. That isn’t a problem if I were a parent I would want my children to act like that Hermonie Granger- a girl dedicated to her school work and her friends. She is very level headed and always tries to help push both of her friends in the right direction. Hermonie is much like me and as I read these I wanted to be like her.
Ron Weasley- a boy who may stand in the shadow of his friends but is always loyal, helpful, and true to his friends and even his enemies. This is a good person you want you kids to read about good people and not people that are robbing stores and drinking like most books do. These are a few of the characters in Harry Potter and I believe that all of them are the same with the exception of Voldemort. I understand that you are protective of your children as my mom didn’t let me read these books until last year but don’t debate a great series. These are good and wholesome books and I have taken a lot of time to defend them. I hope that as I have seen your point of view you will see mine and consider it. Thanks for your time
lol thanks i'm sorry copied the wrong name down. Thank ou anyway
Oh now I see I should of wrote down the name of the person who wrote it down at the very bottom ok thanks
Thanks for the link. That author is a favorite of mine.
Neither of them appears in amy Harry Potter book (so far)
The character was Remus Lupus. Rowling is quite a wordsmith actually and draws heavily from latin when she coins a term. Remus and Romulus the founders of Rome if you recall, were suckled by a she-wolf. The word lupus is latin for wolf, lupine meaning wolflike. The character of Remus was a werewolf.
Sorry. Remus Lupin.
And if our rules included blindly disregarding rules, we'd all be living in Woodstock.
What big teeth you have, Grandma!
Well, as someone who thinks that Mark Twain is easily the most over-rated writer of all time, I have zero problem with pulling him.
But you are not our equal. You are just starting adolescence. We do understand your point of view, we were your age once. You have yet to be our age, there is simply no frame of reference for you.
Proving my point, of course, that the sensible track is somewhere between the two extremes. Thanks for the help.
You make very good points. Welcome to Free Republic.
However we are still living with the extreme of four decades where there is little to no respect for authority in our culture. The woodstock mentality rules as evidenced by our public schools and kid lit like Harry Potter.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.