[Emni Windrunner]

I'm going to get a migraine if I beat my head against the wall much harder.<P>Harry Potter is <B>NOT</B> about the corruption of youth with ideas of witch craft. I am so sick and tired of people screaming about it! I happen to be a Christian. I happen to have read Harry Potter. I happen to <B>like</B> it! There is very little about Harry Potter that does not fit into the realm of traditional fantasy writing. It's in a different setting than a lot of fantasy books, but it is still typical fantasy. The only dark magic that appears in the Harry Potter books is presented as evil and wrong, and it is perpetrated by a villain about as sympathetic as Sauron. Honestly, how many people really want to emulate Sauron? Most of the other spells and charms that appear in the books are similar to tricks that Gandalf uses. Gandalf lights up his staff when they go through Moria; Harry lights the tip of his wand when going through a dark passageway. How is Gandalf Christian-undertoned and Harry witchcraft-overtoned?<BR>At the risk of making a deplorably bad pun, the anti-Harry Potter craze is a witch hunt, nothing more or less. It's a drumhead, mostly masterminded by people who can't talk because they haven't read the books.<P>Sorry for the rant. Literature is a pressure point for me--particularly fantasy literature.