I found several Anti-Harry Potter (there's currently a campaign by "uber-christians" to ban Harry Potter merchandise because they allegedly promote paganism, witchcraft, and interest in the occult! - of course, ignoring all other more important values promoted in the book - such as loyalty, humility, friendship and courage in the face of dire circumstances) articles while surfing the net during lunch hour. Gave me loads of laugh and then some amount of irritation. Majority of the essays were downright mental! (most were written by so-called experts, pastors of various churches, "christian fundamentalists" as well as a bunch of self-righteous individuals/groups who think that any kind of departure from the so-called "norm" ought to be punishable by death...O_o) Literary rubbish to be sure (particularly a "novel" ^0^ written by one Michael D. O'Brien), although I did try to become "objective" in considering their arguments.
One of their strongest arguments was that too much exposure to the "evil that is Harry Potter" would thereby cause children to become enamored in the occult and "forget their christian roots" (which according to them is the source of all that is good - hmmm? has anyone heard of the Crusades?). Anyway, let's put it this way, I'm a videogamer and I play really violent games (Medal of Honour, Resident Evil, Silent Hill - shooting people and disturbing imagery's the norm in games like these). But do you see me shooting people in real life??
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