[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Venting...and a Question!

[chnc1024 at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 12/29/2004 7:48:51 AM Pacific Standard Time,  
susiequsie23 at sbcglobal.net writes:

"Sherry  Gomes" wrote:
> My best friends are fundamentalist Christians, people  that most 
> would consider to be right wing, intolerant and various  other not 
> so nice things. Well, naturally, they are politically  
> conservative.  But they've never objected to the HP books and  are 
> fans almost as much as I am.  <snip>  my friends  get very upset 
> when they hear other fundamentalist people say the  books are evil, 
> without ever reading them, because they believe  exactly what
> SS Susan tells her husband ... the books are about  loyalty, 
> bravery, hard work.  Those things help the heroes  survive, and in 
> fact, magic is often not helpful or just a  tool.
> 
> But then, often the people who think HP is evil, don't  allow their 
> kids to watch the Wizard of Oz, or any Disney movies or  read any 
> sort of fantasy with any sort of  magic


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Chancie:
 
Wow!  It's so funny to hear that come from someone other than  myself!!!  I 
am a Christian
and have been since I was 7!  I would never read these books if I  thought 
they were "down on God" its makebelieve!!!  It's not like JKR  is writing to 
"teach" kids to be witches or wizards or anything, it's just a  story and a 
wonderful one at that!  I've never heard any one object to Snow  White and the 7 
dawarfs because the witch is casting spells to poison an apple  and kill 
someone!  I think that some people are too quick to judge things  based on limited 
information.  They hear that the Harry attends  Hogwarts School of Witchcraft 
and Wizardry... and thats pretty much all it takes  for it to be "evil".  
 
Chancie


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