Hi everyone -- banning the books, Harry and the Dursleys

[Bruce Carter]

No: HPFGUIDX 159395

> >>Magpie:
> <snip>
> I am compelled to ask--has anyone pointed out to her that the books
> aren't
> representing her religion at all?  Or is it the flipside of the
> Fundamentalists so she claims any kind of witchcraft for whatever
> tradition
> she happens to follow?

Bruce Carter:
We are talking about a 15 year old girl here - who doesn't have much
depth to her religious beliefs.  But even she realizes that the
witches of HP are not witches at all.  She resents the stereotypes of
witches - riding brooms, ugly with warts, casting spells, making
potions.  There is plenty of that in HP to make her mad - all she does
is attend rituals in the forest 4 times a year and pray to mother
nature.  Pretty tame stuff - not my religion, but we agree to disagree.


Bruce Carter