"Happily, a few chapters into J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, which Scholastic Press published last September, our hero receives a letter via owl informing him that he is, in fact, a famous wizard and has won a place at the prestigious Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. And with that, the reader and Harry together are plopped down into a world every bit as fantabulous and vividly original as those created by C.S. Lewis, Roald Dahl or, for that matter, George Lucas.
 

SOURCE: The Wizard of Hogwarts
By Elizabeth Gleick
Apr. 12, 1999

"WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY?"  I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND ANY CHRISTIAN PARENT'S INABILITY TO SEE THE EVILS BEHIND HARRY POTTER.

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"This year Harry turns 13, and he and his pals Ron and Hermione meet flying Hippogriffs and terrifying Dementors, prison guards who suck the happiness out of people; they take classes in Divination and discover new powers. But as Rowling, with her trademark humor and tight plotting, continues to mine her true themes of betrayal and loyalty, love and loss, the forces of evil are also encroaching.
From Abracadabra!
By Elizabeth Gleick
Jul. 26, 1999

"CLASSES IN DIVINATION AND DISCOVER NEW POWERS?"  FOLKS THIS IS DAMNABLE WICKEDNESS!

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"In fact, it is not particularly hard to figure out the rules governing the Harry Potter books. Place appealing characters in interesting but perilous situations and leave the outcome in doubt for as long as possible. Nothing new here, nothing that storytellers as far back as Homer did not grasp and gainfully employ. But, as devoted Harry Potter fans have learned, knowing a magic charm is not the same thing as performing magic."
From Wild About Harry
By Paul Gray
Sep. 20, 1999

"BUT, AS DEVOTED HARRY POTTER FANS HAVE LEARNED, KNOWING A MAGIC CHARM IS NOT THE SAME AS PERFORMING MAGIC?"  YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME?  HOW CAN ANY INTELLIGENT CHRISTIAN PARENT ACTUALLY DEFEND MAGIC CHARMS AND PERFORMING MAGIC?  DID YOU UNDERSTAND THAT?..."PERFORMING MAGIC."  THE HARRY POTTER SERIES PROMOTES ACTIVE WITCHCRAFT INVOLVEMENT, IT'S NOT JUST A PASSIVE MOVIE.

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"Strange, strange things are happening wherever on Earth the young fictional hero and his friends can be found.....Rowling's books have bridged political and cultural chasms; they have altered publishing industries; they have even spurred censorship moves by some religious fundamentalists."
From The Magic of Potter
By Paul Gray
Dec. 25, 2000

AND CENSORED RIGHTFULLY SO!

"Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.  So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed."

-Acts 19:19,20

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"Like Rowling's books, the movies are becoming darker and more intense as they progress."
From The Dark Side of Potter
By Jess Cagle
Oct. 27, 2002

EXACTLY CORRECT, AND WHERE WILL THESE WORKS OF DARKNESS LEAD A FUTURE GENERATION?

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"Children buy her [Rowling's] books with their own money. They wear out flashlights reading them after lights-out. Kids with a fear of fat books and dyslexic kids who have never finished a book read Harry Potter not once or twice but a dozen times. Parents report reading levels jumping four grades in two years. They cannot quite believe this gift, that for an entire generation of children, the most powerful entertainment experience of their lives comes not on a screen or a monitor or a disc but on a page."
From The Real Magic Of Harry Potter
By Nancy Gibbs
Jun. 23, 2003

IT IS A DISGRACE AND AN ABOMINATION BEFORE GOD THAT ANY PARENT WOULD VALUE READING SCORES MORE THAN THE CONTENTS OF THE BOOK WHICH THEIR CHILD IS READING.  A CHILD WOULD BE BETTER OFF ILLITERATE THAN TO LEARN HOW TO READ AT THE DEVIL'S SCHOOL.  SADLY, MANY PARENTS WOULD SELL THEIR SOUL (AND THEIR CHILD'S) IN THE NAME OF EDUCATION.  I JUST CAN'T IMAGINE ANY DECENT PARENT ALLOWING THEIR CHILD TO READ THROUGH A BOOK WHICH OPENLY PROMOTES WITCHCRAFT, NOT EVEN ONCE...LET ALONE A DOZEN TIMES.  IF SOMEONE WANTED YOUR CHILD TO READ A BOOK TITLED "WITCHCRAFT 101," YOU'D SAY "NO WAY!  GET LOST!"  BUT THE DEVIL'S CROWD REPACKAGES WITCHCRAFT, CALLS IT "HARRY POTTER," AND THEN EVEN PROFESSED CHRISTIAN PARENTS FALL FOR IT.  WAKE UP FOLKS!

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"In the values Hollywood understands, worldwide box-office income, the first two films from the J.K. Rowling books outperformed the first two Tolkien films, $1.84 billion to $1.78 billion. Reason enough to continue with the education of Harry Potter.
From When Harry Met Sirius
By Richard Corliss
Jun. 7, 2004

"REASON ENOUGH TO CONTINUE WITH THE EDUCATION OF HARRY POTTER?"  NO WONDER THE BIBLE IN 1ST TIMOTHY 6:10 CALLS THE LOVE OF MONEY THE "ROOT OF ALL EVIL."  ANYTHING FOR A BUCK!  SO WHILE MISS ROWLING IS MAKING HER BILLION DOLLARS, YOUR CHILD IS BEING CORRUPTED BY THE DEVIL (AND YOU'RE THE ONE MAKING J.K. ROWLING RICH).  WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?