Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows - merged (WARNING, SPOILERS FROM PAGE 4 ONWARDS)

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Re: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

@PyariCgudia

Those Christian organizations are just being silly. There has been so much literature written about Magic and the like, that I don’t understand why they’re picking on the HP series? Why don’t they protest against Merlin literature, or is it because those books actually talk about Christianity? If there was ever a fantasy attack on the concept of God, it was in Pullman’s books - the Golden Compass series. I don’t see a hoop-laa over those books.

God, Christianity, religion in general is simply not even mentioned in HP’s works. I don’t get why they’d have a bone to pick with that literature when a good portion of fantasy literature focuses on the magical arts. I’ve been reading fantasy as a kid, and I haven’t started cooking up potions in my living room yet.

with the interaction that i had with those folks this is what i jotted down

*HP if read purely as a fiction is not bad. however the target audience is young kids and thus they are impressionable so through these books they precieve magic as something good and natural. it is certainly portraying wizards and witches in a very different light say in comparison to crucible and old tales where the word wicked and witch went hand in hand. *

What i cant understand with that argument is what about shows like bewitched, i love jeannie and stuff? HP certainly isnt the first one where magic is portrayed in good light? Secondly if these spoilers are rubbish than is it okay to lie blatantly to get people to agree with you? I dont know it is fairly twisted.