Yeah, it bored me the first time around. I really liked it when people took "Onion" articles seriously and we got to flame those. These days the threads are just pathetic. I mean, three days until the new book and this is the best they've got?
It's been six years and counting since I discovered Harry Potter, and I'm a better Christian now than I was then. Someday I'll read HP to my own kids. And they won't turn to evil either.
I staked out a "Yeah, whatever ..." position on Harry Potter 4-5 years ago, and I'm still there :-). My oldest boy just read the first one this week, and said he liked it well enough to check out the second.
Literature is full of characters who aren't exemplars of Christian perfection. Dear General Patton, for example ...