Thanks for your critical comments. I agree with them; I was astounded to hear my Jewish sister say that Harry Potter was supposed to be a Christ figure, because I didn’t see him that way, but thinking about it, she was correct.
Judith Anne, I have not read the series, but we have encouraged our daughter to not see the films. We had heard enough about Potter through “the priest,” (my brother-in-law) and his spiritual adviser (a saint in the making) to know that we should probably avoid them. But when I read O’Brien’s accounting, I was a bit shaken. The devil is powerful, even (or especially!) if he enters in small, tiny, ways.