[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.

[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.

[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!

[LizardQueen]

As much as I like the Potter books, this article seems like a load of crap, IMHO. It's a kids fairy tale, for pete's sake. What's with the constant deconstruction of it from both sides? The anti-Potters pick it apart because it's not Christian enough, the pro-Potters write things like this trying to prove everything in the book is a pro-Christian symbol.

Whatever happened to something being just entertaining, well-written fiction?

LQ

[null and void]

On the stock market today is a quadruple witching day.
The Harry Potter book comes out at midnight - the witching hour.
Coincidence? I think not!


(BTW, Weren't James and Lilly Potter both in Gryffindor?)

[Great_Dame]

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[Revolting cat!]

Hey, let's play the game one reviewer I read a couple of years ago invented: go to the nearest bookstore, pick up a Hairy Potty book and count the clichés on the first two pages. As I recall, the reviewer found a dozen or so, while a letter to the editor writer reported a few days later finding as many as 16! Let's call it having fun with trash.

[stuartcr]

JK Rowling...devil-worshipping, satan-loving, demon-spawn....only thing worse would be a democrat, libertarian, or a Muslim. (I learned this on freerepublic, so it's got to be true)

[billbears]

Ah well heck, if the National Review says it's good, that means it's acceptable literature for all 'conservatives'. They've gone from backing questionable foreign policy to throwing in their support for fictional children's books. Talk about different ends of the spectrum. And then again maybe not....

[protest1]

I guess we are so lucky to live in such an enlightened age. By using occult images and practices to represent "good" we can safely disregard the word of the LORD God on the matter.

Gosh... the combination of the inventive mind of man plus "symbolism", is there anything it cannot explain away?

Deuteronomy 18:9 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, 11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee. 13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God. 14 For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.

Isaiah 8:19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? 20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. 21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward. 22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

Isaiah 19:3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.

Acts 19:19 Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. 20 So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.

[protest1]

"According to the Pagan Federation of England, the interest of thousands of teens to learn more about witchcraft has been stimulated through Harry Potter and television programs like "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Sabrina The Teenage Witch.

This quote speaks for its self.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33175

[Lady Eileen]

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[js1138]

I won't be posting or lurking much this weekend.

[nutmeg]

read later bump

[Centurion2000]

Interesting article but WAY to much into word analysis ... but than again maybe not.

I liked how Diagon Alley came from diagonally and Knockturn Alley cam from nocturnally (also the Dark wizards' hangout)

[norton]

This has all been very interesting,
but at 0750 the post office delivered my package.

"The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses....

See Ya!

[Tribune7]

Oh, get the heck out of here.

Harry Potter is based on Sonny Bono movie from 1986. :-)<