The idea of banning Harry Potter has been around since the first book was introduced. Apparently, parents & religious groups think that J.K. Rowling is trying to subconsciously make children follow the Wicca religion. Now, with the Dumbledore controversy, these groups have another thing to put against the book: homosexuality. So, according to parents & religious groups, JK Rowling is trying to make every child a homosexual Wicca. C’mon people – what is your problem! There are so many problems with their reasoning!
1. JK Rowling is a church-going Christian who belongs to the Church of Scotland; although, she has admitted to flip-flopping her belief of life after death. If Rowling is a Christian, why is she trying to convert everyone to Wicca? [1] [2]
2. If we were to ban every book that had supernatural actions or witchcraft, think of all the great stories children would lose. Any fairytale (especially in the Disney industry) like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White would be gone. Also, all of the great youth books like Ella Enchanted, Lord of the Rings, & countless others. Not to mention classic plays most high school students study like Hamlet & Macbeth. But yeah ... let’s just ban them all?
3. Burning books to make a statement is completely POINTLESS! Do protestors understand that they are still giving to the "evil" author when they buy the books to burn? I don't think I'd care if people burned my book - as long as they pay for it, they can do whatever they want! By burning piles of books You are contributing to her bank account & wasting perfectly good trees, congratulations!
4. JK Rowling isn't homosexual ... I doubt she's trying to get the children of the world to be. I didn't see that Dumbledore was gay when I read the last book & I know many others who didn't either, so the homosexual context obviously wasn't that apparent. In fact, the whole "Dumbledore is Gay" conflict only arose after Rowling openly said it - if Dumbledore being gay was such a big problem, why wasn't it such a huge controversy when the book first came out? Once again, the homosexual contact obviously wasn't that apparent. If adults didn't see the context clues or read between the lines, why do people assume a child will?
5. Look at all of the kids, pre-teens, young adults & adults who are actually reading! How can something be so bad if it gets people to READ instead of watching hours of TV, wasting their lives, getting fatter & fatter? [FYI - I don't think everyone who watches TV gets fat, it’s just to make a point] It's not like each book includes little zip-lock baggies full of cocaine [ha that would be funny, a bunch of stoned people tripping from Harry Potter]
Banning Harry Potter books is one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard. I honestly don't get why people are turning it in to such a big deal. Why not focus on keeping drugs & violence out of schools instead of books. Do something productive with your time!
Solutions:
1. Everyone just stop reading books. This includes the Bible - oh yeah, all that stuff Jesus does is not good for children. Turning water into wine, jeeze.
2. Only Learn from television, video games & the internet. Everything on TV & the internet is considered fact now-a-days. Video games ... well if we're going to be in war for like the next 20 years, we might as well start gettin' kids infatuated with violence young.
---be careful, these moving picture boxes may be a form of witchcraft.
3. Home school your children from now on. What does anyone else know anyway? Plus, the teacher might be a witch.
[1] http://www.inspiremagazine.org.uk/news.aspx?action=view&id=1758
[2] http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/1999/1099-post-weeks.htm
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I haven't read Harry Potter since the 4th one. Not because of any type of religious veiws, but I just got tired of reading and they got longer...and when the movies came out, it was harder for me to even let my imagination take me as far as it used to while reading.
Anyway, my opinion is this:
Harry Potter is great for imagination and exploration. The thing is, they are all fictional characters. Why does it even matter if one of them is gay? He's not even real! Why does it matter if they all fly around on broom sticks and use magic wands... These characters aren't even real.
I wonder if these same parents against their children reading Harry Potter let their kids out of the house... Cause there are a bunch of REAL people coming out everyday. Ah, its just ridiculous to me.
My aunt, who is exactly the same religion as my mother and our family, wouldn't let her children read Harry Potter because of witchcraft, but she encouraged reading Tolkien's books. There is still witchcraft, even if it supposed to allude to the story of Christ.
There is a time to live, and a time to die. But now it the time to break it down!
You know what's funny about that? During her book tour, Rowling admitted that there have always been religous parallels in the books - most predominantly in "Deathly Hollows"
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1572107/20071017/index.jhtml
an article from the MTV interview that touches on religion in the series
This is purely religion speaking.....
Myself, I call myself God fearing. I am what most would call a Chrisitan, but I feel that Christianity has been perverted by religious movements. If I call myself a Christians, some Christians will ask me to give them breaks (as I own companies here in Hawaii), some of my tennants will tell me that charging rent is un-Christian. That's religion for you... an exclusive members club.
So when religions band Harry Potter, I think it's idiotic.
So what that it's a book about witches. It's pretty cool. It's fiction, not reality. I don't mind kids watching Aladdin, when they are implying that the Arab lifesyle is luxurious....I don't mind, I don't care. Kids know fact from fiction...
I am a Christian but still read the books. Did it make me want to be Wiccan or gay (like you said with her recently outing Dumledore), no. I read it thinking, this is a great FICTION book, JK Rowling has a great imagination and good writing skills. I think this is something that parents need to monitor, like everything else many fail to do. If you don't want your kids to read it, don't let them. But I don't think books should be banned because a group of people doesn't like it. Its like that one school that earlier this year banned the Bible from their list of books the students were allowed to read in class on their free reading days. The bible shouldn't be not allowed on a kid's FREE reading time.
"Don't let anyone ever make you feel like you don't deserve what you want." - 10 things I hate about you
It won't do anything by banning Harry Potter. Can't they see that the more they complain about the novels, the more famous Harry Potter becomes? If they don't want their children to read it, then don't buy the books for them...although I doubt that will be successful. Honestly, Harry Potter is entertaining for kids and has political values for adults. It's just brilliant! I can't find another word to describe it.
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I think people have strayed away from finding solutions to society's problems, and have instead replaced it with their superstitions as a means of comforting themselves. School violence for example: instead of trying to get to the foundation of the problem, people throw out that it's our culture, or rock music, or gangsta rap, or guns, or lack of God in our schools, or Harry Potter books, that will lead to the downfall of society.
It's that people's arrogance has made it so their personal preference is more important than a concrete solution.