Harry Potter and the Satanic Conspiracy

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 4988

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Aberforths_Goat" 
<Aberforths_Goat at Y...> wrote:
> Listen,
> 
> I don't know whether I should even talk about this just now. Some 
members of
> one of the churches I work in took to circulating an article from a 
(small,
> German) Christian magazine quoting an interview in which Jo 
blasphemes
> profusely and pronounces herself a card-carrying Satanist. As I 
found out
> later, some religious creep happened upon that piece published back 
in July
> by www.onion.com (for the record, I didn't really find it funny) 
and spammed
> his whole address book with a letter quoting the article as though 
it were
> real news. The blithering idiots who received his spam happily 
dashed off to
> publish their "news," content to have documentary proof of what 
they'd know
> all along.
> 
> I'm so mad I could eat the carpet. As a dedicated Christian, I 
think we
> should harbor at least a little respect for what that guy said about
> treating other people the way we would like to be treated 
ourselves. But
> perhaps I'm misjudging ... after all that was 2000 years ago. And 
besides,
> said guy was probably just another one of those liberal-hippie-long 
hairs.
> Or maybe the author of the article likes being slandered and 
figured JKR
> would enjoy it as much as he does.
> 
> It's just too much. I've got the editor's phone number and hope 
he'll print
> a retraction. I also hope I didn't offend anybody with my rant. If 
it were
> members of some other faith doing it, I don't think I'd feel so 
hurt.
> 
> Anyway ... back to our regular programming ...
> 
> Aberforth's Goat (a.k.a. Mike Gray)
> http://profiles.yahoo.com/aberforths_goat



I'm sorry this happened, Mike. It is very hard when people with whom 
we think we share beliefs do something like this.

I was reading some of the History of Halloween, and I noticed that
some of the anti-Halloween posts seem to assume that witches today
worship Satan and evil.

I'm wondering if the FAQs planned include something about:

There are real witches/wiccans practicing today.
They do not worship Satan. They are not evil

The witches and wizards in HP do not reflect and are not like
real witches. The witches and wizards in HP are both good and evil.

HP is really a morality play. It is about a battle between good and 
evil. If one were to assign Zoorastrian roles, Albus Dumbledore would
be Michael and Lord Voldemort would be Lucifer.

Harry Potter and his friends are against evil and against Voldemort.

Susan