[sushiman]

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[LiteKeeper]

read later

[ccmay]

Pllllppppp! Stick to your knitting, Granny.

[ikka]

Interesting take on it.

[PetroniusMaximus]

Thought you might find this interesting.

[Billthedrill]

All told, it is the grandest trans-cultural event of epic proportions in the history of mankind, rivaled only by the Bible.

This is almost too silly to comment on. It is nothing of the sort. Twenty years from now Potter will be an item of nostalgia for a dimly-remembered childhood fad. As far as rivaling the Bible in any sense - and the author is quite specific and quite serious about this - it is difficult to see how an adult with all his faculties intact could manage to make the comparison. It is more than hyperbolic, it is simply and categorically false.

[Humidston]

Bump for tomorrow.

[Dragonspirit]

I have to take issue with the author’s objection to the positive use of magic and such within the story. Would the author have the same problem with fictional tales of King Arthur’s knights and Merlin, or of Lord of the Rings and Gandalf?

In such stories, magic is not something worshipped or sourced through Satan or a satanic figure, it is a tool of characters to accomplish their goals. And if the rejection of it is due to some claim that it’s anti-Christian, well, should we take it to the logical conclusion and protest against any story that possesses weapons of any sort? In fact, it would be hard pressed to make any story at all that didn’t present some behavior that would be less than Christian in some capacity.

Faith doesn’t require fear of ideas or references.

[paudio]

Couple weeks ago there was a threat about HP, and I agree with that one. Yes, HP is about wizards, etc., but at least the author did not intentionally write the pieces to undermine Christianity. That’s not the case with “His Dark Materials” by Philip Pullman. He stated that he wrote the series to challenge Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, which he saw as ‘Christian indoctrination’.

[r9etb]

use the word rivaled with some consideration, not only because of the impact of the series on the modern world, but also because of the worldview it so powerfully implants in its devotees. In short, the series is a kind of anti-Gospel, a dramatized manifesto for behavior and belief embodied by loveable, at times admirable, fictional characters who live out the modern ethos of secular humanism to its maximum parameters.

I stopped reading right there. The author is FOS.

[r9etb]

Anti-Potter Nitwit ping

[Burlem]

Maybe, just maybe this author and others are making way too much of the Potter books. They were originally written by Rollings to make reading fun for her son who was not a reader.

Why is it necessary to tear apart something with strange psycho-analysis. It is a story, a made up fun story.
Scheesh.

[DeFault User]

He (Harry) must grow up, it goes without saying, and he does so throughout the seven tales by coming into the realization of his inherent semi-divine powers. These are never referred to as god-like powers because that would be a tacit admission of some kind of higher authority, and Potterworld will admit no absolute hierarchy in creation.

It seems apparent that Mr. O'Brien sees the religious allegory in Potter's life, but then chastises the author for not admitting "some kind of higher power". It's likely that O'Brien would have accused Rowling of blasphemy had she done so.

You can't win with critics like this who are so obsessed with their narrow view that they see a nefarious purpose in anything that does not track exactly with their preconceptions..

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Ping

[null and void]

"and as far as I can remember none of them die naturally."

Nicholas and Perenelle Flamel.

[trisham]

Interesting article.

[Artemis Webb]

I saw a really nice boxed Potter set on Amazon the other day. I already have all the books but I was waffling on paying for the boxed set. Thanks to you for posting this article. I will go buy it right now!

Thank God for J.K. Rowling!!!!

[Artemis Webb]

Oh yeah..one more thing;

Cthulhu Saves!

[martin gibson]

read later...NOT.

did you know that Barbara Bush is a SATINIST because she acknowledged the Harry Potter books as part of her advocacy work with librarians. Plenty of FreeTard threads that will fill you on all the details...

[retrokitten]

*Sigh* Who has that Dumbledore picture? You know the one I mean....