Maybe it's hair-splitting, Hugh, but there is a distinction to be noted between Luke's "spiritual battle" and Harry's "world of witchcraft." The Jedi's Force is represented as a force for the Good in the eternal struggle against Evil. This Good is a universal moral norm applying to all human beings, even those who resist or repudiate it out of some motive of personal gain.
Witchcraft, on the other hand, is only about personal gain. Its intrinsic selfishness is the antithesis of the universal. Its adherents are a tiny group of "superior" individuals supposedly in possession of an esoteric "hidden knowledge" that is not the common property of mankind. It uses the language of "we" (i.e., the "elect" human beings who are "in the know") against "them" (i.e., the squalid, dumb jerks who aren't "in the know"). The purpose of the "hidden knowledge" of witchcraft is to transform nature and to manipulate and exploit others for personal benefit. It is a fundamentally immoral project.
So yes, it's true both Luke and Harry are engaged in "flights of fancy." But their respective flights are NOT qualitatively the same, either in motive or consequences.
So it just seems to me that the only real purpose the Harry Potter books serve is the mainstreaming of anti-nature (and anti-life) propaganda among our children. Plus the one Potter book I did read -- Sorcerer's Stone -- was so exacrably written that the term "literature" did not even seem to apply to it. (Though the word "trash" did come to mind.)
All things considered, I find this latest "pop cult" just a tad disturbing. best wishes, Hugh -- bb.
The Jedi's ForceNo, there was no Jedi's force. There was one force, which could be used for good or evil, but was of itself neither.