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To: pchuck
I read MacBeth in high school. Again in college. But most eight-year-olds aren't devouring Shakespeare.

Parents object to the fact that Harry Potter glorifies witchcraft to young, impressionable minds. Rowling presents a perverse, Godless world order that looks to be lots of fun.

You sound like a good parent. Do yourself and your kids a favor and read one of the books yourself. It's the only way anyone can make an accurate judgement.

99 posted on 11/10/2001 11:48:45 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
I read MacBeth in high school. Again in college. But most eight-year-olds aren't devouring Shakespeare.

Parents object to the fact that Harry Potter glorifies witchcraft to young, impressionable minds. Rowling presents a perverse, Godless world order that looks to be lots of fun.

I better not have them read the children's series by C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narina. They sound similar (in some ways) to these Harry Potter books.

In the The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, four children—Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy—go to stay with a reclusive old professor in a mysterious country house. While playing a game, Lucy, the youngest, hides in a wardrobe and discovers that it leads to a magical world called Narnia. This land, which is inhabited by talking animals, is ruled by the lion Aslan, a good and powerful king. Narnia, however, had come under the spell of the evil White Witch, who had caused it to be always winter but never Christmas there.

Sounds like my kids are going to turn to the dark side when they read these in several years.

114 posted on 11/11/2001 2:30:52 PM PST by pchuck
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