[GreyFriar]

I recommend you read the original book from which the movie was made. I think you will like it better. Rowling uses Christianity, perhaps inadvertently, as her model for the values of the good witches and wizards in the story. My daughter, born in 1988, pointed that out to me when she read “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” I then read it myself and had to agree with her. The entire story line is about good versus evil.

[thecodont]

I recommend you read the original book from which the movie was made. I think you will like it better. Rowling uses Christianity, perhaps inadvertently, as her model for the values of the good witches and wizards in the story. My daughter, born in 1988, pointed that out to me when she read “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” I then read it myself and had to agree with her. The entire story line is about good versus evil.

I believe it was in the last book of the series ("Deathly Hallows" I think) where Rowling referenced a Bible verse, "The last enemy to be destroyed is death" (I Cor. 15:26) on the gravestone of the parents of Harry Potter.

[LYDIAONTARIO]

Cute book and fun tale of good triumphant over evil....BUT, grown men and women (especially the men!!!) using the books as a religion makes me shudder!

[zot]

Thanks for the ping. I liked her first book best. They seemed to go downhill and get darker thereafter.