[My Identity]

All good points. And don't forget:
- killing child-like mandrakes for ingredients(II)
- giving potions (drugs) secretly to others (Crabbe,Goyle/II)
- taking potions (drugs) to gain knowledge(Potter,Weasley/II)
- running away as solution (Potter/III)
- graphic torture of innocents for sport (Quidditch World Cup/IV)
- gratuitous murder (the caretaker/IV)

Yes, I have read them all - twice. And enjoyed them immensely. But nevertheless, their casual moral structure and increasingly dark tone make me doubt the author's benign intentions. She promises that subsequent books will be even darker, because she has a "moral obligation" to show the true face of evil. Adult fare--certainly. But increasingly inappropriate for children.

MI

[jjbrouwer]

You are truely a scholar of the Potter Testament. Quidditch is a difficult game to follow though.