Christians and HP revisited

[Holly]

I, also, go through this all the time.  My husband's ex-mother-in-
law is an obsessed Pentacostal Christian.  Yet, I find, that she 
contradicts herself all the time.  She "found" God after years of 
alcohol and drug abuse.  She will not let my husband's children 
watch, read, talk about Harry Potter (they live with their mother 
and their maternal grandparents) nor are they allowed to watch 
Pokemon, YuGiOh, etc.  They are encouraged to watch Lord of the 
Rings.  Now, I personally, like both HP and LOTR.  My own 7 year old 
son loves both but HP especially.  He has read the first 3 books and 
is getting into the 4th.  He likes HP more because it is easier for 
him to understand and get into.  LOTR to him is just a bunch of 
people fighting about a ring.  He doesn't understand it and at 7 he 
shouldn't.  He can understand friends and school and magic.  My step-
children are 5 and 7.  Their grandmother made them go see LOTR.  My 
husband and I felt that at 3 (at the time) the daughter was too 
young to see it because it's scary at times and too much for a 
child.  That's their grandmother though.  She's also the same 
Christian woman that makes her daughter use the children as pawns to 
get money and ditch the kids on anyone who will take them so that 
they don't have to be bothered just as long as the check comes for 
them once a month.  Nice, but I would rather my child believe in 
Magic and fantasy then using people as weapons.  That's just me

Holly