[LanPB01]

Yeah, right. I guess a story that encourages children to work hard and do their best to overcome obstacles can't compete with a book featuring happy tales of worldwide flooding, testing people by encouraging them to kill their own kids, and wholesale slaughter.

[what's up]

work hard and do their best to overcome obstacles

By chanting spells? LOL. Yeah, that's much better.

[nmh]

"Yeah, right. I guess a story that encourages children to work hard and do their best to overcome obstacles can't compete with a book featuring happy tales of worldwide flooding, testing people by encouraging them to kill their own kids, and wholesale slaughter."

LOL! Depends on the child. As for your other remarks I believe you need professional help. You're off the wall.

Harry Potter is for the troubled child. Studies have indicated that. So for us, we prefer to avoid witchcraft and spells. You do as you see fit without villifying and exaggerating the preference of others. Ooops, I forgot, Harry Potter fans are unable to do this. They are too intimidated by disapproval.

[Richard Kimball]

I prefer Shakespeare. You know, "The first thing let's do is kill all the lawyers."

[cavtrooper21]

I know that this is a flame risk, but on the first part of your statement I agree with you...
There are far too many good messages contained in Harry Potter to be ignored.
I still can't figure out the parents that will tear a Harry Potter novel from their kids hands and then plant them in front of the TV to watch violent/sexual TV shows or to play violent vidiogames. They top this off by saying that Harry Potter is "evil" or "Satanic" yet its ok for little Johnny to watch every type of degenerate activity on TV.