[JenB]

Our point is that Harry Potter magic is not “real” occultism. So it would be like a story where you mix Fizzing Wangdoodle Powder with orange juice. And then you’re complaining that kids are going to mix rat poison with orange juice and die and we say no, Fizzing Wangdoodle Powder is imaginary and not rat poison.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Please don’t tell PM about the Skiving Snackboxes.

[PetroniusMaximus]

“Our point is that Harry Potter magic is not “real” occultism.”

I’ve already give you a list of things in HP that are REAL occultic practices. The way HP portrays them is a Hollywood version - but the practices that underly the hollywood version are real practices.

[PetroniusMaximus]

“...not “real” occultism.”

Here’s another example.

HP has a seer named Cassandra Vablatsky. The name “Vablatsky” is a a play on the name “Blavatsky” as in Madam Helena Blavatsky, 1831 - 1891.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Petrovna_Blavatsky
http://www.blavatsky.net/blavatsky/madame-blavatsky.htm

She was a serious occultist and was known as the "Priestess of the Occult".