Debates about HP and Witchcraft

[Aberforths Goat / Mike Gray]

I'm trying to give a survey of religious controversies surrounding the HP,
HDM and LB series, and I've run into a new HP question for you all:

Are conservative* Christians the only people who are really worried that HP
could promote interest in the occult? From what I have seen and read and
from what I can google, this has been almost exclusively a concern of the
conservative Christian subculture - which has fought quite bitterly about
it. Everyone else has just observed the ruckus and scratched their heads.
That's what it looks like from where I am, but is that the way things
actually are? 

I'm not actually aware of any progressive/liberal Christian, secular or
otherwise-religious commentators who have voiced similar concerns (let alone
staged book burnings ... ), but there's a heck of a lot I haven't read ...

So am I missing anything?

What's more: *if* that's the way things are, why are they that way? 

- Is it that conservative Christians think occultism is a real, spiritual
phenomenon and other people don't and hence aren't concerned?
- Is it that cCs think occult *movements* (Wiccans, etc.) are dangerous,
whereas other people simply don't?
- Is it that cCs are closed to other religions whereas other people are more
open to inter-religious dialogue?
- Is it that cCs read differently than other people?
- ?

Baaaaa,

Mike the Curious Goat
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*whatever that means