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Yes. And my answer is the same as yours - 'Yes, because it accurately reflects life.'

On many levels, so does the Harry Potter series. It is set in a fictional fantasy universe, but the human lessons are real.

[PetroniusMaximus]

“Yes. And my answer is the same as yours - ‘Yes, because it accurately reflects life.’”

So you are OK with your kids reading a fictional book about teenage male prostitutes???? Really?

“On many levels, so does the Harry Potter series. It is set in a fictional fantasy universe, but the human lessons are real.”

HP glorifies occultism. Occultism is an abomination in God’s eyes

[ReignOfError]

On many levels, so does the Harry Potter series. It is set in a fictional fantasy universe, but the human lessons are real.

Universality is what makes great and lasting stories great and lasting. Whatever the setting, from Hogwarts to Middle Earth to Narnia to the banks of the Mississippi to Victorian London to fair Verona to Camelot, what rings true is the human motives, good, bad, and ugly. Greed, lust for power, anger and hate; Sacrifice, justice, courage and love.

A common theme of modern literature is that even out heroes have feet of clay -- that is certainly true in Harry Potter. I do not see that as a negative, or as creeping moral relativism. Someone who is human and flawed, but nonetheless heroic, is someone we can choose to be, something we can aspire to -- not some other-worldly celestial being who is too far beyond us to contemplate.