“Kids can become crack addicts and prostitutes (whether a particular story is fiction or not). Kids can’t pick up a stick, say Protego!, and create an invisible shield.”
Kids can not become involved in occultism????
Really???
I wonder why several B&Ns I’ve visited set out a display table of HP books and then fill a table right next to it will serious occultism books?
He didn’t say kids can’t become involved in occultism, he said they can’t pick up a stick and say “Protego!” and create an invisible shield. They are two different things.
All of the “spells” in the HP books were made up completely by JK herself. There’s no occultism there.
I have no interest in discussing something like this with someone who is so closed-minded and who has very interesting interpretations of several Bible passages. You should go to some of the kook websites where you can talk about the evils of Harry Potter with more like-minded folks. I’ve known many people whose kids have read the books and shown absolutely no interest in becoming “true” witches and warlocks. Fiction isn’t real, you see.
I wonder why several B&Ns I’ve visited set out a display table of HP books and then fill a table right next to it will serious occultism books?
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Let me take a stab at that one. Maybe because bookstores are in the business to, uh, stay with me here, sell more books. Are you familiar with the term ‘impulse buy’?
Maybe because B&N is stupid, or maybe you just made it up. I went to the midnight party at Border when the 7th book came out. There was only one section of the bookstore that was completely empty, the new age section. Potter fans were gather all over the place, in the kids section, in the sci-fi section, in the literature section, in the music section. There was only one place you could walk without risking stepping on some one, the new age/ occult section, the Potter fans were apparently repulsed by that section, didn’t even want to sit on the floor reading other non-related books there.
1) define "serious accultism books."
B) Document that this has occurred. Dates, place, and if you have a camera in your cell phone, bonus. I somehow don't see any bookseller with half a brain stacking Aleister Crowley books around the Harry Potter display. It would be one for the all-time annals of dumb marketing, and B&N didn't get where it is by being stupid.