"Second-year Students will Require: The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 2...Travel with Trolls... Voyages with Vampires...Wanderings with Werewolves". (page 43-44)
"Harry took a pinch of Floo powder and walked to the edge of the fire. He took a deep breath, scattered the powder into the flames, and stepped forward; the fire felt like a warm breeze; he opened his mouth and immediately swallowed a lot of hot ash". (page 48)
"A glass case nearby held a withered hand on a cushion, a blood stained pack of cards, and a staring glass eye. Evil-looked masks stared down from the wall, an assortment of human bones lay upon the counter, and rusty, spiked instruments hung from the ceiling". (page 49)
"Draco paused to examine a long coil of hangman's rope and to read, smirking, the card propped on a magnificent necklace of opals, Caution: Do Not Touch. Cursed-Has Claimed the Lives of Nineteen Muggle Owners to Date." (page 52)
"Harry felt a hot surge of anger.-and as you see, certain of these poisons might make it appear-" (page 51)
"The aged witch stood in front of him, holding a tray of what looked horribly like whole fingernails. She leered at him, showing mossy teeth. Harry backed away". (page 54)
"For a few horrible seconds he had feared that the hat was going to put him in Slytherin, the house that turned out more Dark witches and wizards than any other-". (page 77)
"We'll be repotting Mandrakes today. Now who can tell me the properties of the Mandrake"? (page 91-92) Mandrake causes hallucination and is poisonous.
"Of course , Mother was slightly disappointed, but since made her read Lockhart's books I think she's begun to see how useful it'll be to have a fully trained wizard in the family..." ( page 94)
"And a few of you need to read Wanderings with Werewolves more carefully-I clearly state in chapter twelve that my ideal birthday gift would be harmony between all magic and non-magic people-". ( page 100)
"Alicia shrieked, 'How dare you!', and Ron plunged his hand into his robes, pulled out his wand, yelling, 'You'll pay for that one, Malfoy!" and pointed it [wand] furiously under Flint's arm at Malfoy's face". (page 112)
"And then Harry heard it...rip...tear...kill...Listen! said Harry urgently, and Ron and Hermione froze watching him...kill...time to kill...The voice was growing fainter". (page 137). Harry was now hearing voices (page 137) .
"Mrs. Norris, the caretaker's cat, was hanging by her tail from the torch bracket". She was stiff as a board, her eyes wide and staring". (page 139)
"No, said Ron, without hesitation. Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world'. (page 145) Harry is hearing voices?
"For a few years, the founders worked in harmony together, seeking out youngsters who showed signs of magic and bringing them to the castle to be educated". (page 150)
"He believed that magical learning should be kept within all-magic families. He disliked taking students of Muggle parentage, believing them to be untrustworthy". (page 150)
"Sir-what exactly do you mean by the 'horror within' the Chamber?" ( page 151)
"Peeves upset me so much I came in here and tried to kill myself. Then, of course, I remembered that I'm-that I'm-" "Already dead, said Ron helpfully". ( page 156)
"Regrowing bones is a nasty business". (page 174)
"The holidays would be the perfect time to use the Polyjuice Potion and try to worm a confession out of him". (page 185)
"I think I'd better do the actual stealing". (page 186)
"Potions lessons took place in one large dungeon...Twenty cauldrons stood steaming between the wooden desks, on which stood brass scales and jars of ingredients". (page 186)
"Then they raised their wands like swords in front of them". (page 190)
"A jet of silver light hit Malfoy in the stomach and he doubled up, wheezing". ( page 192)
"I'm a what? said Harry. 'A Parselmouth!' said Ron. 'You can talk to snakes!". (page 195).
"That's why the symbol of Slytherin House is a serpent". (page 196)
"It's not possible to live with the Dursleys and not hate them said Harry'. (page 200)
"I'm sure I've done everything right said Hermione, nervously rereading the splotched page of Moste Potente Potions . It looks like the book says it should...once we've drunk it, we'll have exactly an hour before we change back into ourselves". ( page 215)
"Yeah... said Malfoy. Luckily, they didn't find much. Father's got some very valuable Dark Arts stuff. But luckily, we've got our own secret chamber under the drawing-room floor". Ho! said Ron". ( page 224)
"You'd be surprised, said Ron, who was looking apprehensively at the book. Some of the books the Ministry's confiscated-Dad's told me-there was one that burned your eyes out". (page 230)
" Why not ask Professor Snape to show you how to whip up a Love Potion!". (page 236)
" I wish he was mine, he's really divine, The hero who conquered the Dark Lord". This was a singing valentine for Harry". ( page 238)
"It's never too early to think about the future, so I'd recommend Divination". ( page 252)
"Kill this time...let me rip...tear... He shouted aloud and Ron and Hermione both jumped away from him in alarm. The voice said Harry...I just heard it again-didn't you?". (page 254).
"Let me at him [Malfoy], Ron growled as Harry and Dean hung onto his arms. 'I don't care, I don't need my wand, I'm going to kill him with my bare hands". (page 267).
Ron here has 2 weapons-his wand and his "bare hands". "A suspicious object like that, it was clearly full of Dark Magic-" (page 329)
Is there any special reason you obsessively typed in several dozen random passages from the book?
It's hard to tell just *what* in the heck you think you're trying to prove here, especially when one of your "examples" is a *singing valentine*. Oooh, horrors!
Yeah, magic happens in the book. Ooh, big surprise! And a big whoop-de-doo.
Look, if you're one of those nancies who thinks that any mention at all of "magic", even clearly fictional, playfully presented magic, is somehow *EVIL!*(tm), then fine, we get it, you're not going to like Harry Potter, or Lord of the Rings, or the Wizard of Oz, Macbeth, the Odyssey, or a lot of other classics. Good for you, go off and enjoy your fringe opinion.
But if you think that most of the rest of us are going to fall quivering to our knees because you merely quote a book that mentions werewolves and magic wands, you're sadly mistaken.
I listened to the Beatles, Black Sabbath, Grateful Dead, Alice Cooper and the Mothers of Invention, dropped acid 60 times, got busted four times for pot, shaved my head and cut a swastika into my cheek, raped three girls, knocked over a bank, shot a police officer making a getaway from a liquor store robbery, and am serving twenty years for attempted murder, and I turned out all right!"
About the guy who asked the Bible how he should make decisions and run his life?
He closes his eyes, opens the Bible, and the first text his eyes land on is, "And Judas went and hung himself."
Thinking that couldn't have been what God intended, he decides to try again... "Go thou and do likewise."
Third try's the charm, right? "And what thou doest, do quickly."