Hmm....more labels for those who don't conform. Those who don't follow the official Potter line seem to endure a lot of this behavior from the Potterphiles. I rather doubt this is healthy for our kids.
Potterphiles? Can't really make an argument about labels when you are not only labeling people, but making up words to use as labels, much less inappropriate and inaccurate ones, but I suppose the irony of that is lost on you as well.
I have no real pro or anti Harry Potter stand, I have read the first one, its an ok book... nothing fancy, decend for a childs book. Its mania I believe to be more a product of mass marketing than of its stories inate greatness. I would not put it on a required reading list for life, nor would I put it on the banned list of satan worshiping mind rotting scum.
Its a book, nothing more. Its no more a stepping stone to the "black arts" and satan than "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is a stepping stone to racism.
You say you doubt this is healthy for kids... I see, so reading is unhealthy? Using ones imagination is unhealthy? Finding entertainment that doesn't come in the form of a video game or television is unhealthy? Perhaps they should be out playing spin the bottle in the barn? I am sorry, but there's nothing unhealthy about a kid reading a fictional story, and as someone who has actually read the book in question, I can say first hand there is nothing unhealthy in it.
I honestly don't agree that this book should be cirriculum reading by schools (no more than the hardy boys, or nancy drew or sweet valley high etc) because it really does not represent anything from a literary perspective, not because it is devilspawn.