[HPforGrownups] Harry Potter and the Satanic Conspiracy

[Aberforths_Goat]

No: HPFGUIDX 5045

Err ... perhaps I should have let that post cool down over night.

> But if you're talking about the second magazine, I understand your point.
Like
> you, I'm a Christian, and it's painful to see others who claim to hate
JKR's
> work BECAUSE they are Christians (and PARTICULARLY after all the work I've
been
> doing to trace Harry's moral development in the series.  I mean, c'mon!
Haven't
> they ever bothered to read these books they're condemning?)  It's even
more
> painful to see them fall for the Onion's parody, hook, line and sinker.
Their
> doing so both makes them look like knee-jerk, stupid fools, and moreover,
it
> causes damage to the reputation of Rowling and her work, which we love, by
> spreading a stupid (parody) lie about Rowling even further.  Nobody is a
winner
> here, except perhaps the Onion, who can laugh at us all.

Right! I meant the Christian magazine, of course. The Onion doesn't have
anything to retract: I'm not all that wild about their style of burlesque
(another parody in the form of an Amazon book page for HP5 nearly put me in
hospital from laughing), but that's my taste buds. (Mind you, that's saying
a lot--we goats are known liking just about ... um ... oh never mind.) I
haven't got ahold of the editor yet, but I have received about 5 other
emails or phone calls over the last week in response to the rumor. (I'm a
known HP fanatic in my corner of the world, and this particular urban legend
is making the rounds among German speakers.)

Which reminds me: does anyone have a URL or transcript of the Rowling
interview from Toronto, where she called someone a lunatic for asking
whether she's a Satanist?  Like it or not, it seems that I going to spend a
week or so as a Harry Potter activist, so I might as well find a good
rebuttal straight from the horse's mouth. (BTW, that's a very speciesist
idiom, if you ask me.)

Yuk! I thought Harry Potter was one of the few things in life I *didn't*
have to be serious about. <sigh>

Steadfastly refusing to be got,

Aberforth's Goat (a.k.a. Mike Gray)
http://profiles.yahoo.com/aberforths_goat

P.S. Anyone who is curious about the rumour can check it here (you may need
to fix the URL):
http://www.urbanlegends.about.com/science/urbanlegends/library/weekly/aa0809
00a.htm .