HP...The Good or Evil Controversy

[Carol]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Carol Lynn
<childofgod19832003 at ...> wrote:
>
> I love all the Harry Potter movies. I have all five and I cannot
wait til the new one comes out. My two year old daughter is even a fan
and she knows Harry Potter when she sees him. It's so cute. 
> My ex husband on the other hand keeps tryin to convince me that the
movies are a bad influence and that I shouldn't let Heaven watch them,
mostly because of the magic in the movies. But I see nothing wrong
with them.
> 
>  
> Carol Lynn Cumberland
> childofgod19832003 at ...

Carol responds:

Hi, Carol Lynn. You might want to be careful of spoilers here as most
of us have read all the books multiple times and tend to take for
granted that other readers know, for example, who the Half-Blood
Prince is. If you enjoy the movies, I'm sure you'll enjoy the books as
well. (You might want to tell your ex-husband that J. K. Rowling (or
JKR, as we call her) is a Christian. She doesn't believe in magic in
real life and is definitely not advocating the practice of witchcraft
by Muggles like us (who couldn't perform it, anyway, because we don't
have magical "blood" or genes). The later movies will probably be too
violent for a two-year-old and beyond her comprehension, as are the
books, which we adults enjoy discussing.

Anyway, if you read the books, most of your questions will be
answered. As for the new Steve's question about Harry's being royalty,
the books answer that question as well. There's no royalty in the WW
(Wizarding World), unless you count a certain Half-Blood Prince, who
isn't Harry.

Carol, whose middle name is also Lynn but who has never been called
Carol Lynn by anyone except her kindergarten teacher