I don't believe this

[The Saucepan Man]

For goodness sake, isn't there enough evil actually occurring in the world, without reading it into perfectly harmless books? Why can't these people devote their energies into addressing the tangible wrongs that are happening here and now, rather than making wholly misguided attempts to brand anything that they don't agree with, or which doesn't conveniently fit into their own comfortable little belief system, as evil?

Child molesters are evil. Brutal dictators are evil. Serial killers are evil. JRRT and JKR are not evil.

Mind you, this loony is right in one rather twisted way. If you think that the HP books are encouraging people into the ways of Satan, then the logical extension of that argument is that JRRT's works are too. The problem is that his arguments aren't logical, or even remotely rational.

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Edit:

HP & LOTR are quite different ... I don't think that you can consider LOTR evil, unless you have a major thing against wizards.

Harry Potter and his chums were wizards. Gandalf was a wizard. Both used spells.

From The Hobbit, Out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire:

But, of course, Gandalf had made a special study of bewitchments with fire and lights (even the hobbit had never forgotten the magic fireworks at Old Took's midsummer-eve parties, as you remember).

[ May 30, 2003: Message edited by: The Saucepan Man ]