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Originally Posted by Turtle Woman
For a series that is so vehemently hated by right-wing Christians, HP has many Christian themes.
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all of us, Turtle Woman, and I agree, it does.
Most of the hatred you reference is dismally ignorant of the reality. I've been told that Ms. Rowling is a witch herself, Wiccan, specifically (she is, in fact, a Presbyterian, if memory serves me), but the biggest thing that seems to get them going is "her" claim that Harry Potter's name will be known to every child in the world. Apparently folks feel that she is trying to brainwash the children by knowledge of the name.
The silly thing there, is that she never (so far as I can tell) ever made such a statement. It would have been an extraordinary (though not necessarily evil) thing to say if she had, but she didn't. They seem to be mis-referring to
Dumbledore's statement at the beginning of the first book, that everyone in their world (which would be the fictional wizarding world in which the fictional characters live in a fictional fashion) would know Harry's name.
And within those fictional boundaries, it's both true and not extraordinary.
Anyway, I haven't heard much of that sort of uninformed vitriol since around the time the second movie came out, so perhaps it's died down some? Then again, perhaps I've just succeeded in informing the folks around
me enough that they've gotten over it ... or just stopped complaining where I could hear it.
The only real part of the series that I find concerning is the rather casual relationship the characters seem to have with the truth (i.e. they lie a lot), but that's something to
talk to your kids about, not something to put together a stake and bonfire combo over.
