Deconstructing Rowling

National Review ^ | 6/9/03 | Dave Kopel

[Xenalyte]

Quad witching? Jeez, I HAVE been out of the securities industry for long. How did that get by me?

[null and void]

That and I will be at the bookstore at midnight.

Wimp. The party starts at 7:00 Be there or be square!

[billbears]

Ah well heck, if the National Review says it's good, that means it's acceptable literature for all 'conservatives'. They've gone from backing questionable foreign policy to throwing in their support for fictional children's books. Talk about different ends of the spectrum. And then again maybe not....

[protest1]

I guess we are so lucky to live in such an enlightened age. By using occult images and practices to represent "good" we can safely disregard the word of the LORD God on the matter.

Gosh... the combination of the inventive mind of man plus "symbolism", is there anything it cannot explain away?

Deuteronomy 18:9 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, 11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee. 13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God. 14 For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.

Isaiah 8:19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? 20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. 21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward. 22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

Isaiah 19:3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.

Acts 19:19 Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. 20 So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.

[null and void]

As much as I like the Potter books, this article seems like a load of crap, IMHO. It's a kids fairy tale, for pete's sake. What's with the constant deconstruction of it from both sides? The anti-Potters pick it apart because it's not Christian enough, the pro-Potters write things like this trying to prove everything in the book is a pro-Christian symbol.

One of the things I find enjoyable about the series (I'm series) is all the tie ins to Latin and classic mythic tales.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Kinda like me saying, "La Boheme sucks and is all that is vile," without having seen the opera.

I would say that about opera in general. :-)

[AmericaUnited]

No + no.

[bonfire]

The purple dinosaur quite the fairy.

[protest1]

"According to the Pagan Federation of England, the interest of thousands of teens to learn more about witchcraft has been stimulated through Harry Potter and television programs like "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Sabrina The Teenage Witch.

This quote speaks for its self.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33175

[AmishDude]

Yes, yes, the evil David Frum actually ghost-wrote the entire series to advance the Trotskyite philosophies of the nefarious neo-cons!

Mumble...mumble...mumble...Illuminati.

Mumble...mumble...mumble...Bilderbergers.

Mumble...mumble...drool...drool...

[retrokitten]

I just got the email now, however, obsessed by evil as I am, I've been checking my order status on the website all week and the website said a couple of days ago that it had shipped.

Xenalyte, I think you need to add nina0113 to your prayer list along with the Barnes and Noble and Borders employees and the poor Fed Ex men.

[BibChr]

Kee-kee!

You've broken the code!

Dan

[Young Werther]

My wife and daughter went to North Dakota for Grandma's 90th birthday.

I have strict orders to not open the package when it arrives!

YEAH! RIGHT!

[null and void]

Methylene chloride will make the tape's adhesive let go. You can unwrap the package and reuse the tape after the solvent evaporates...

[Xenalyte]

Then please tell me how you get "good=evil, evil=good" from the Potter series.

[Paul Atreides]

If anyone wants to get in a snit about anything, they could get into one about Star Trek, which emphasizes a socialist, atheist society.

[Xenalyte]

Nina, I shall pray for your soul as well, and for you to be brought to God and saved from that EVIL book. ;)

[AmericaUnited]

link

Some 8.5 million copies of "The Order of the Phoenix" have been printed for the U.S. market, and millions will see the cover of the colorful phoenix rising above the flames of a red hot fire on Saturday, but what is its significance? In Barbara Walker's "Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets," she says, "The phoenix is part of Egyptian mythology and identified with the bennu bird, a spirit associated with the phallic obelisk. He rose to heaven in the form of the Morning Star, like Lucifer, after his fire-immolation of death and rebirth. He embodied the sacred king cremated to be reborn".

Is it a coincidence that Adolph Hitler also used the phoenix as his symbol of reincarnation and "born again" power to resurrect the Second Reicht to his Third Reicht in an attempt to bring about the New World Order? His Nazi uniform boldly emblazoned both the phoenix and another powerful occult symbol, the lightning bolt. Interestingly enough, the so-called descending phallus of heaven, the lightning bolt believed to impregnate Mother Earth, or the sea-womb with life, is the curse mark Harry's arch enemy, the Evil Lord Voldemort scarred Harry's forehead with when he murdered Harry's parents on Halloween night.

Yup, "Christian symbols" indeed! Sometimes the utter stupidity of people just amazes me. The self-deception and delusional is just staggaring.

[billbears]

Did I mention Illuminati or the Bilderbergers? Of course not, however I see where I went wrong!! I dared question the wisdom of NRO, apparently second only to the Bible as the holy written word of God Himself.....

[MineralMan]

"Good = Evil, Evil = Good.

It's later than we think."

Well, now. Another non-reader of the Potter series, I see. There seems to be a rash of such folks posting about yet another book they will not bother to read.

You know, nobody's going to force you to read any of the books. Nobody's going to send you a magic wand to wave around, or send you an owl.

You could just ignore the whole thing and save yourself a lot of stress.