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Originally Posted by CC1
Barb,
I don't disagree that HP can dispose mushy young minds towards being accepting of witchcraft.
Everything is context. The books are pure fantasy and great fiction. For kids who have Christian parents to put things in context I don't think there is a problem. However for heathern kids or kids whose families are nominally "christian" but are unchurched and unlearned it does at least open them to thinking positively about words like "witchcraft" and the idea of spells, potions, etc. Probably the vast majority of those people also keep HP in context as fantasy and not related to reality but I am sure there are a few it leads astray just as any number of things can do.
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I very much agree with this. It is about context. The question is whether kids are going to start practicing withcraft after readin it or view it as an interesting piece of fiction. We can't shelter our kids from everything. Sometimes that does more harm than good if we have too long of a list of thou shalt nots.
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