[Gophack]

I agree that if someone has a good grounding in their faith that they are not going to be converted to satan worship through the reading of Harry Potter. You and I can handle it. HOWEVER, my children are the age group Harry Potter targets (8-13 years old). These kids ARE NOT grounded in their faith. While they believe and have a child's faith in God, they are also very susceptible to the world around them, their environment, their reading, their parents, etc. There is SO MUCH evil in the Harry Potter books that even if we read them with our children, we would have to explain on every page why Harry was wrong or bad ... and that's no fun, is it?

Why do you think there are so many problems like you described among young people today? Perhaps it is because of books like Harry Potter ... and movies ... glorifying self-worship and denying that there is a Higher Authority to whom all must answer some day. The problems we have today with sex, promiscuity, abortion, out-of-wedlock births, drugs, homosexuality, drug use ... all stems from the radical, free will, anti-Christian, do-it-if-it-feels-good sixties and seventies. We are paying the price with the souls of our children for the hedonism of the past generation.

Harry Potter contributes to the problems we see today. But worse, Harry contributes to the loss of souls for God. That, my friend, is truly scary.

[american colleen]

I respect what you are saying, but I think the reason we have so many problems today -- "sex, promiscuity, abortion, out-of-wedlock births, drugs, homosexuality, drug use ... all stems from the radical, free will, anti-Christian, do-it-if-it-feels-good sixties and seventies" -- are not because of Harry Potter, they are because PARENTS are negligent in their duties as Christian parents. I see it every single day. My daughter goes to school with three girls who are weekly altar girls. Two of them engage in lesbianism. We live in a society where everything is fine and too many parents don't say much of anything regarding faith and morals (right and wrong) to their kids and we who do are NOT generally backed up by our priests, nuns and bishops.

My daughter's faith withstood Harry Potter. It's pretty strong.

[Aquinasfan]

But worse, Harry contributes to the loss of souls for God. That, my friend, is truly scary.

Well said.