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A boy, living in miserable conditions, is discovered to have an unusual affinity to magical manipulations of his surroundings, is taken away to a council of masters who decide what he should learn, and what to teach him to achieve mastery of his mysterious talents to percieve and manipulate his surroundings through magical means. Along the way he meets up with an attractive girl, an annoying sidekick or two, and is caught up in greater events and is pursued by an evil wizard. Wild adventures occur, the story ends, and there is an expected sequel.

Question: am I describing Harry Potter or Anniken Skywalker?
Question: why is the Harry Potter movie considered evil, yet Star Wars is not?

¸?)Dion: why is the Harry Potter movie considered evil, yet Star Wars is not?

Because the protagonist doesn't describe himself as a wizard, attend a school for witches and wizards, have witch and wizard friends, and engage in occult practices.

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Yet another good analogy!!! There are thousands like it,.. and we loved the movie. The grandkids who are 6 and 5, didn't get fidgety or budge (Grandma had to use the powder room, but not them!!) It was great magical fun. We love fiction in this house. We have extremely successful kids (sigh.. so hard to not keep calling them *kids*... they are grownups now!!) who read fiction with us. We shared books. It was great fun.. and we feel helped their reading comprehension.

It is just so refreshing to see these kinds of movies after all the crappola that Hollywood had been putting out for so many years. I know there were a few fun ones that fiction lovers could see. But NOT ENOUGH, NOT COMPARATIVELY IOHO!!

We are really excited to see this movie doing so well,..and hope the same thing happens to "Lord of The Rings"!!!! Then maybe Hollywood will get it.. will start making more movies like it, where kids and parents/grandparents can go laugh and have a good time together!!! ;o)