[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Right Wing Reviews; DVD & Book 5 Release Date

[Wendeline...aka Deb]

I don't think it's all necessarily *right*-wing.
I have at least one leftist friend who considers
the stories too violent, blablabla.

Having been alerted to another author's book
agaisnt HP (he who is, by the guidelines,
not-to-be-discussed here) I read on his website
the claim that on her 1999 NPR interview with
Diane Rehm, JKR admitted [sic] that one-third of
the book was "the occult." 

Listening to the interview on Real Player, I
heard JKR say that "about a third" of the magic
the characters do is based on the way "people did
things in Britain" ages ago. 

Ms. Rehm asked JKR if she believed in magic, and
JKR said - I'm paraphrasing of course - that she
believed in the type of magic that comes from
imagination, etc. etc., but as to "drawing a
circle on the ground" and saying words to make
things happen, "No," she did not.

Thanks to the anti-HP author for his accusations
and the link to the WAMU website! Bet he didn't
expect anybody to check it out, but I did and I'm
vindicated and glad.

Wendelin aka Deb

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"So long as dancing is cultivated, civilization progresses; but no sooner is the interdict set forth against it, than the people who were once refined by its inspiration, relapse into barbarism." 
- Thomas Hilgrove, 1856

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