Deconstructing Rowling

National Review ^ | 6/9/03 | Dave Kopel

[Xenalyte]

Heads up - FC's head may explode!

[CaptainJustice]

Thank you for the post! My love of Harry Potter has been venerated!

[Young Werther]

But, is John Granger is Fair and Balanced?

After all, Hermione's father! Where's Hillarity, Colmes, Press and Xlintoon when we wish to ascertain the truth of the matter?

SARCASM ALERT!

Just received my Amazon shipping notification. Doin' my lawn today since tomorrow is "Phoenix Day"!!!

[AmericaUnited]

Good = Evil, Evil = Good.

It's later than we think.

[TheBigB]

here...WE/Go==>again! *SiGh*

[Xenalyte]

You're kidding, right?

Are you another one of those who hasn't read the books, but can form a perfectly valid argument about how awful they are with absolutely no knowledge of what they contain?

[Wolfie]

I don't know anything about Harry Potter, but I do know its fun to say "Godric Gryffindor".

[Xenalyte]

TheBigB-->BigBird...oscar/snuffleapUGus*woolly_mammoth+trashcan==>dirt

Oh, hell, I can't keep that up. My brain hurts.

[Xenalyte]

You're right. That may be my new alias.

Now I gotta figure out what to do with my old alias.

[TheBigB]

Hey, are you calling me dirt? =)P Careful or I'll call Callisto on you...

[eyespysomething]

All I ever thought about it is that it is a tale of the timeless battle of good over evil.

That and I will be at the bookstore at midnight.

[LanPB01]

Forget f.Christian. For pure Potter entertainment, contact nmh. On another Potter thread, someone posted an Onion article talking about how children were becoming devil worshippers due to Rowling's books. The article contained ridiculous quotes such as, "The son of god died because he was weak and stupid". nmh took it literally.

[Xenalyte]

Hey, are you calling me dirt?

I didn't intend to, but the message just kind of TOOK OVER me.

No, really, I couldn't figure out how to work Satan and Harry Potter in there.

[Xenalyte]

Ooh, would you happen to know which one? That's gotta be good readin'.

[Treebeard]

Oh my, yes it is! Get that oil and those lamps trimmed and burning! There's a thief a-comin' in the night!

One will be taken, another left. Two men enter, one man leave! (Wait, that's Thunderdome, or is it NT?)

And JK Rowling and her evil Harry Potter set the whole thing in motion. Who'd a thunk it?

[dark_lord]

It would be interesting to see if there is a difference in perspective between pentacostalist/charismatics versus fundamentalist on this issue (because the former accept figures of speech and symbolism in the Bible, the latter do not.) The argument made here is based on using symbolism, allegory, metaphor and so on in the Harry Potter books to "prove" they are not anti-Christian. Since fundamentalists tend to reject those conceptual mechanisms (in the Bible) I wonder if they would buy them here. My guess is -- NOT!

[r9etb]

Just received my Amazon shipping notification.

Me, too. And the wife and kids are headed out to a midnight bash tonight, so it looks as if we'll end up with two copies -- not a bad thing.

[Paul Atreides]

I was raised on the classic fairy tales about wizards and the like, and I haven't joined any cults. And, I'm a lot older than the Potter books.

[It's me]

Ahhh, I was too. The difference is that Good prevails and, people, who are not into magic, are not evil.

I loved fairy tales.