Another problem with the Harry Potter stories is the source of their power. The source of the power is the children themselves, not any Higher Power such as Jehovah God.
People who don't have these powers are derisively called "muggles" and are made fun of and ridiculed. I see that expression being tossed around Free Republic too.
But that is exactly the opposite of how people who get their power from God would behave. It's a priviledge, a great honor, it should humble you. The power doesn't make you superior in any way, BECAUSE IT IS GOD'S POWER. And it is never to be used for selfish purposes.
The people who were honored with powers in the Bible had to go to great lengths to make sure it was understood that God was the source, and not they themselves. When Moses made the mistake of saying that he made the rock give water, he was severely humbled by God for that.
It is a dangerous and untrue notion that we can have any kind of good power without God. No, people cannot be the source of good. It is by imitating the source of good that people may appear to be good. But we must not allow anything to draw attention away from the source, especially with children.
The Harry Potter books are all about how these children have these powers from within themselves, and they use it for "good" because they want to. They could just as easily use it for evil, as others who have the "genetic" powers do.
Wrong, the source of the power is their genes. Who decides your genetic structure? I was told it was God.
There's nothing derisive in the word "muggles", they're only made fun of by the bad guys, the good guys like muggles and consider protecting them to be part of their duties as people granted great gifts. Some wizards even think muggles are pretty ingenious in all the interesting inventions they make to get by without magic. The only muggles universally derided are Harry's relatives, because they're jerks.
The good wizards do consider it an honor and a priviledge and are humble about it. They don't consider themselves superior, as I said some even consider the muggles superior because of their clever solutions to living in a world without magic, the Weasley father is positively facinated by muggle inventions.
nobody is saying anything about a good power without God, that's your invention.
The Harry Potter books are all about children who were born with these powers and are learning to control them and use them for good while in the face of serious evil. They could just as easily be used for evil, that's part of what makes the bad guys so bad, and the good wizards take it as part of their duty not only to protect each other from the people using their powers for evil but also the muggles. Duty, honor and priviledge is a big theme in the books; what makes the bad guys in the books bad is that they abuse their priviledge and don't believe in duty and honor.