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Except maybe for the bits about love and sacrifice, themes consistent in all of the Potter books.

The book teaches children to participate in spiritual darkness. Do you believe there are demons? Principalities? It never ceases to amaze me how many claim to be Christian yet completely ignore the warnings He gave us.

I used to read Tarot cards. I dabbled in astrology. Did any of us not play with Ouiji boards and seances? I don't think kids realize the door that gets opened when we play with such things. Apparantly a lot of adults don't either.

Demonic principalities are real and they're just waiting to devour our children. Just because there is love weaved in is no reason to dangle our children in front of danger.

>>The book teaches children to participate in spiritual darkness<<

Where? Give us an example. Because magic is a talent in these books. It is not something that is taught. It is used as another’s ability to play an instrument or skill at kicking a football. You either have it or you don’t.

So where in the books do the children participate in spiritual darkness?

“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus” (Philippians
4:6-7).

I used to read Tarot cards. I dabbled in astrology. Did any of us not play with Ouiji boards and seances? I don't think kids realize the door that gets opened when we play with such things. Apparantly a lot of adults don't either.

The ones in real peril are the ones who do their homework, get the proper kit, learn the proper incantations, and don't just borrow the glass out of the bathroom to use on a sketched-out ouija board because they think they know what they're doing.

I believe in demons but the idea these books encourage children to participate in spiritual darkness is beyond ludicrous.

Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Craft have got far more dangerous incantations in them than anything you'll find in Harry Potter. So has Sabrina the Teenage Witch!

Wingardium leviosa isn't even pig Latin never mind proper Latin, and wouldn't work even if you did have The Gift.Locomotor coffee only works when my wife's in the kitchen (and I translate the incantation into English). I tried shouting Avada Kedavra at a very timid gerbil once and it didn't even fart.

WARNING: You can get complacent. For example, Izzy Wizzy Let's Get Busy is, was used on a children's programme in the UK, without the programme makers realising that it is in fact an incantation of truly apocalyptic evil. The mute yellow puppet Sooty to whom it was attributed, was actually a demon from the broom cupboard on the 17th layer of Hell, who was merely disguised as a hand puppet in order to manipulate Matthew Corbett (who I suspect was actually an ipsissimus with a glamour). That information really could save your soul.