“If you want to talk about the movie, watch the movie. If you’d actually read the books you’re talking about, you wouldn’t be getting so much flak.”
My point all along has been that HP, whether book or movie, contains real occultic practice. I think the quote from JKR in post #912 now proves that beyond any dispute.
Only if “what people used to believe” means “real occultic practice.”
Are you willing to assert that?
Beyond any rational dispute? You're joking, right?
The quote in question discussed the mythology, creatures, and spells that people used to believe in. There are no *real occultic practices* contained in the books.