Harry Potter and God

[Carol]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, danielle dassero <drdara at ...> wrote:
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> Thanks for the great suggestions so far guys. I have tried to get my friend to read the books but she's not into what she calls the fantasy/sci fi area. She only read the Narnia books as a kid because her mom made her. She liked them ok but not as much as plain ole fiction. 
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Carol responds:

Maybe you could convince her to watch one of the Harry Potter films--painless and fun--to prove to her that they're harmless. If she's still not interested in the series, at least she'll know that they don't promote witchcraft among us Muggles. As both the books and the films make clear, nonmagical people (that is, real people like us as opposed to her fictional characters) can't perform magic, and, as she's said in interviews, she doesn't believe in magic, anyway. It's just a device that she uses in the plot of the story. Reading SS/PS, for example, is no more harmful than reading "Cinderella."

If that doesn't work, I would give up on getting her to read the books and just ask her not to condemn them unread.

Carol, out of suggestions for the moment