Seems to me, from when my daughter was reading such books as Harry Potter and Pullmans, that both dealt heavily in magic but Potter was not mean spirited or targeting Catholicism. My daughter gave up on Pullman BTW. Dawkins is a first class jerk who doesn't understand the distinctions between science and values and plan old entertainment. He is likely wearing too small a size jockey shorts. I ascribe to evolution as a convincing scientific argument but fail to see how it demands atheism as my religion.
I am in most ways a pretty fundamentalist guy who like reading in general and fantasy in specifics. I enjoyed all the Potter books for what they were...fantasy, as did my very grounded 16-year-old, who knows, as I do, the difference between reading about Merlin-like pretend magic and the devil-inspired hubris of messing around with the real thing. But at the core, they are "British Schoolboy Tales" from that lost time in the past when Imperialism was a tradition, honor was a very real thing, and values weren't in shades of gray. HP preaches love, care, and that evil is very real and must be constantly guarded against.
If the Compass books had been written by Robert Heinlein, the bad guys would turn out to be evil reptilian alien with hearts black as coal, and the franchise would have gone on for a dozen movies. My Unitarian brother tried to downplay the Church aspect in Compass, and set it as just another sword and sorcery movie, but I know better; I know what a smarmy old troll Pulman really is, and what's more, I know that the movie was carefully crafted to hide what the trilogy is all about, in order to pull in ignorant parents and get them to buy the books for the kiddies. (That is the most reprehensible part of it...that the movie is just a tool to "get past" the ParentRadar.)
I am a "long-term-miracle" man, myself...taking the progression of life on Earth as evidence of God "breathing life into clay". My faith in Christ's sacrifice making my personal sins clean is not threatened by taking Creation as parable. Still, if I should turn out to be wrong about it, I'm sure God will straighten me out in the first five minutes of the afterlife, and by then, it probably won't matter. Taking at it's original POV, evolution is no more than "survival of the fittest" and man is still here, still on top, and has both the biggest brain and the opposable thumb going for him, so I take that as Divine Providence at work.