[bookwurm]

You are off base. To Christians, messing around with magick, occult and other such practices is very serious business and is prohibited in Scripture. Dancing is never said to be sinful in scripture. To infer that our children becoming entrenched in occultic practices or entertaining occultic beliefs is not a serious issue is wrong - it is just as serious as drug use and sexual promiscuity. You apparently don't see the danger, but many of us do.

[Arkinsaw]

To infer that our children becoming entrenched in occultic practices or entertaining occultic beliefs is not a serious issue is wrong

That particular inference is in your own head, not out of my mouth. MY inference is that hucksters are manipulating fundamentalist parents paranoia and willingness to believe anything they say to get into the newspapers and into peoples wallets. Harry Potter is going to send the youth into Satanism just like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles did when they warned us about IT.

Be scared of the Harry Potter novels if you want. Someone has convinced you to be scared of something meaningless in the middle of a world of real dangers. THAT is whats scary.