[realpatriot71]

Damn! The flames from this post are especially numerous today, so I really hate to "pile on," but do you not think that children are able to tell the difference between fiction and reality? When I was in grade school I read fantasy books (full of magic and demons - I stil read these), played AD&D, and listened to heavy metal music. Guess what? I'm still a the Christian my parents raised me to be and you'll find me in church every weekend. I'm still a believer in the loving grace and power of Jesus as the only form of redemption. I do not buy into the New Age "everything is really the same path" crap. I truned out ok. Maybe other kids will too, no?

[Arkinsaw]

Doesn't matter, you are an occultist, anarcho-syndicalist, and moral relativist because the American Taliban say so. They have issued a fatwa against Harry Potter books.

[AppyPappy]

but do you not think that children are able to tell the difference between fiction and reality?

No Some adults can't. I still get emails from people thinking they will get Gap certificates for forwarding an email.

The problem is that the marketing behind the books push them at our kids and SOME people don't like the concepts in the books. Kinda like the whole Captain Planet push that corporations were bad and environmentalism is good. I don't want that stuff pushed at my kid. And I don't want them ridiculed because they don't go along with it.