re: #108 SanFranciscoZionist
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.
The real, serious, mouth-foaming Harry Potter hatred comes from evangelicals.