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Oh come on. Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings are pure escapism. Harmless. Although Lord of the Rings has quite a few excellent things to say about honor. Also it has a lot of cold war echos. I wonder if that was intentional. Oh Gandalf hand Harry's arse to him.

Preaching to the choir hos. If there's one thing I've learned in 32 years on this rock it's that some people are just messed and waiting for that "one last thing" to push them over the edge. Now that one thing could be HP, or it could be some girl, or a joint, or an episode of Star Trek. The wise course in life is to understand that the person is messed up not the "stressor". My problem with the anti-HP crowd, much like my problems wit the anti-D&D crowd and the anti-heavy metal crowd is that they don't look at sheer numbers. 4 million copies of the 4th HP book were done on the first pressing (not much of a collectible that), of the folks that bought it apparently a couple of dozen decided to go check out Wicca and other occult stuff. Now, according to the anti-HP crowd that's all the proof you need that HP is evil and recruiting for satan. According to me if I printed out 4 million pieces of paper that said "hi how are you?" and mailed them out to random addresses all over the country a couple dozen of the recipients would decide to go check out Wicca and other occult stuff. It's a law of averages thing, if you randomly select 4 million people some of them are going to be morons, can't be helped, don't blame the "selection process", blame the idiots.