What I just saw on TV...

[dan]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Jason" 
<shrtbusryder2002 at y...> wrote:

> Jesus Killer Rowling? wow. 
> Homosexual because he's English? double wow.

> Jason, who is immensely apprehensive at fanning the flames but, WOW.

Jason, these things make certain groups focus on Harry Potter so 
much, and completely ignore the 3,456 other books about magic in the 
kids shelves.

1 It's more popular.

2 The author hasn't meet with archbishops or bishops or whatever to 
confirm herself as a Christian, as Lewis and Tolkein did.

3 Lewis and especially Tolkein were social conservatives. Rowling is 
not, by a long shot. The best essayists regarding Rowling in fact 
identify her as a social anarchist. She derides bureacracy, ala 
Fudge, she despises state methods of control, ala Umbridge, she 
identifies ambition as unsightly (see descriptions of any Slytherin 
character), she sees positive personal qualities arising from 
disenfranchised or despised classes (muggleborns, e.g.) and so forth. 
It's like a challenge to the idea, for example, that innercity 
schools are more dangerous than suburban schools. (Statistics in the 
US point out that most school shootings took place, and take place, 
in nice, middle class or upper class suburbs.)

Given this, the response to HP from the Christian Right makes perfect 
sense. Rowling is undermining their political beliefs, as disquised 
by Christianity.

Dan