re: #86 EmmmieG

I don’t see in there that George Bush believed, but that some aides did.

I actually know people who won’t read Harry Potter, etc. because it uses magic and witchcraft.

The ones that I know have a personal reason, like the family with the dad who was raised in Mexico, and his mother used to have him do errands for the local witches in return for their services. He was so turned off by it, he won’t touch anything touching witchcraft.

I, personally, just make sure my children can distinguish between fiction and non-fiction.

There was some discussion in the Catholic community about it, because the Church discourages sorcery—but as almost everyone pointed out, this is not ‘real world’ magic at all, it’s clearly a story about a different kind of reality. You might not want a child reading a story in which real-life teen characters cast love spells, but Harry Potter isn’t like that at all.

And the series has some very good moral lessons.