New Pope Disapproves of Harry Potter

[tonihollifield]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at y...> wrote:
> Well I read that article and I think we talked about this before. 
The 
> author has put together bits and pieces of things and has tried to 
make 
> it look like something the current pope said while he was pope. 
This is 
> not true. He was writing a letter in 2003 to placate some rightwing 
> religious nut and nothing more. I don't think that he has ever read 
the 
> books. And he referred her to send the book to the man that did 
speak 
> for the Church and gave a good review.
> 
> So until I hear it from the lips of Pope Benedict HIMSELF, I will 
not 
> believe that he is personally, or as the leader of the Roman 
church, 
> opposed to the HP books.
> 
> You can't believe everything that you read on the internet. 
Especially 
> from some obscure so called news site.
> 
> Tonks_op


I don't disagree with anything you said above, but I wanted to point 
out that this report also aired on ABC World News Tonight in the U.S. 
last night.  At the very least, it's not just obscure "news site[s]" 
that picked up the story.  In the same report, they discussed right-
wing southern (U.S.) evangelicals burning HP books in protest because 
the Bible says that sorcery is evil (at which point, I started 
yelling at the TV something to the effect of "do you people 
understand what 'metaphor' means!).  They also discussed the theory 
that Harry is a Christ-like figure.  

--Toni