Back up. Who is this guy? He is a boy whose boss is dark and who had rejecte dhis adoptive family and who is in no way good. He has no virtue other than relative virtue - he is nice to his friends. that’s regardless of whether they cast spells on people they don’t like.
Thanks for this post. You're right. I've read all the HP books and agree with you. There's nothing transcendent about HP: nothing about him or his coterie touches on what is best and deepest in Western folklore or in the Judeo-Christian tradition.
HP has no center. Perhaps his author designed him that way, as a blank slate onto which the modern child reader (ideally blank, "tolerant" and "open-minded") could project his or her fantasies.
It’s interesting. My stdents are so quick to put down the character, what they know from google, try as I do to keep them from that source for this, of the author ew’re reading from or to say he’s out of it because he lived a long time ago. But they know nothing about the author of thecntemporary book they’re reading. they’ll follow someone’s philosphy whom they know nothing about but who could be a deranged person trying to get kids to follow.
Parents couldn’t care any less about whom their kids are emulating. Parents don’t consider the moral formation of their kids. It’s in convenient - especially in this case when the book is so addicting it takes rehab to get the kids off this stuff.