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I used to read Tarot cards. I dabbled in astrology. Did any of us not play with Ouiji boards and seances? I don't think kids realize the door that gets opened when we play with such things. Apparantly a lot of adults don't either.

The ones in real peril are the ones who do their homework, get the proper kit, learn the proper incantations, and don't just borrow the glass out of the bathroom to use on a sketched-out ouija board because they think they know what they're doing.

I believe in demons but the idea these books encourage children to participate in spiritual darkness is beyond ludicrous.

Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Craft have got far more dangerous incantations in them than anything you'll find in Harry Potter. So has Sabrina the Teenage Witch!

Wingardium leviosa isn't even pig Latin never mind proper Latin, and wouldn't work even if you did have The Gift.Locomotor coffee only works when my wife's in the kitchen (and I translate the incantation into English). I tried shouting Avada Kedavra at a very timid gerbil once and it didn't even fart.

WARNING: You can get complacent. For example, Izzy Wizzy Let's Get Busy is, was used on a children's programme in the UK, without the programme makers realising that it is in fact an incantation of truly apocalyptic evil. The mute yellow puppet Sooty to whom it was attributed, was actually a demon from the broom cupboard on the 17th layer of Hell, who was merely disguised as a hand puppet in order to manipulate Matthew Corbett (who I suspect was actually an ipsissimus with a glamour). That information really could save your soul.

I believe in demons but the idea these books encourage children to participate in spiritual darkness is beyond ludicrous.

Then why do Wiccans rejoice over the books?

And I think these chapter titles are contrived, there are a lot of Biblical phrases turned upside down:

The writing on the Wall

The Dark Mark

The Half-Blood Prince

The Lightning-Struck Tower

Flight of the Prince

The White Tomb

After the Burial

Horcruxes

The Lion and the Serpent

The Ministry of Magic

The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black

The Hearing

The Lost Prophecy

At the very least these are taking Biblical precepts and trivializing/diminishing them. Planting seeds that I wouldn't want anywhere near my children. I'm already grieving that I allowed my kids in public school thinking I could debrief them...I can't believe one of my own sons originally thought Obama wasn't a bad choice. Thank goodness he also learned in public school that our votes don't count for much and didn't bother. I never thought that would be a plus.