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To: keats5
To teach a child that witches can be good sends the opposite message.

Not quite. For instance, in one scene Harry Potter is alone with Professor Dumbledore and Harry asks if he should have been in Slytherin. (one of the four groups in which students are sorted) When Harry asked this he was according to the book, looking desparately at Professor Dumbledore. See Slytherin is composed of those, more mean, bullying and those that 'go bad'.

Dumbledore answers 'The Sorting Hat placed you in Gryffindor. You know why that was. Think."

Harry: "It only put me in Gryffindor because I asked NOT to be placed in Slytherin."

Dumbledore: "Exactly. It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Harry CHOSE/desired NOT to be placed with the 'bad guys'. He CHOSE/wanted to be placed among the 'good guys'. Choices. It's about making the proper choices in our lives and they POINT THIS OUT IN THE BOOK AND MOVIE.

If one is only receptive to bad then I guess that is all that that person will see....... but there is much good if one reads or watches with an open mind, and heart. Let us not forget that the Spirit works in mysterious ways.

275 posted on 11/15/2002 8:28:08 PM PST by ET(end tyranny)
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To: ET(end tyranny)
Dumbledore: "Exactly. It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

And my daughter got a major nudge when we heard this line and talked about it later. This movie teaches personnal responsibility and in this day and age that's a delight.

The question I have to ask. Did you provide this transcript from memory or did you find it on the net? Either way I'm impressed.

304 posted on 11/15/2002 8:48:29 PM PST by lizma
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