[HPforGrownups] Request for Anti-HP Video

[John Walton]

No: HPFGUIDX 27119

B.K. DeLong wrote:

> At 08:44 PM 10/03/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>> Again, I think that HP4GU ought to have *something* on the Web that
>> answers these protests via educating the "bashers" on both sides of
>> the equation.  The Religion FAQ is a good idea, but I'd love an
>> information page pertaining to this.  If you're interested, please
>> let me know.
> 
> Here's more info:
> http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2001_08_19_archive.html#5197006

(John picks himself up off the floor with a stitch in his side from laughing
so much)

Oh dear. Those poor, misguided souls. How unbelievably daft. "Witchcraft
Repackaged"...LOL! And since when did "evolution" become an Element of
Witchcraft? To me, this is "Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged -- Making
Innocent Look Evil".

A few questions for those who have the books to hand (and haven't lent them
to foolish flatmates who have yet to read the books) -- where in the books
are there references (or what these delightful folks could construe as
references) to:

1) Mother Goddess
As a worshipper of the Goddess, this is patently silly.

2) evolution
No comment. Just...no comment.

3) reincarnation
Erm... Flamel? Except he's not dead.

4) communing with the dead and spirit world
Dead, sure, spirit world...umm...do they mean the Pensieve?

5) seasonal nature celebrations
Like Christmas? Or do they mean the annual snowball fight?

6) sorcery, divination, spells, curses
Yeah, yeah.

7) meditation
Erm...

8) Occult symbology
Given that the Christian cross is itself an occult symbol (just turn it
upside down, folks), that's a bit rich coming from them!

9) Black magic
I think they're misconstruing "Dark Magic" here...

10) demon possession
WTF?

11) "dark" aspects of Witchcraft
Sure. Except that it's JKR's *fantasy* witchcraft.

--John, who thinks it would make his life as a witch a whole lot easier if
spells were as easy as the ones in the HP books

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and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.
--'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' by JK Rowling

John Walton -- john at walton.vu
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