Harry Potter Speculation

[Drolefille]

Do these people not realize that it is all made up? It can't teach children to perform spells that aren't actually SPELLS. They're just quasi latin words. Waving a stick around and saying them will not a) cause magic to happen or b) summon the devil to take your soul to hell. (I know, I've tried)

[BetteDavisEyes]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Do these people not realize that it is all made up? It can't teach children to perform spells that aren't actually SPELLS. They're just quasi latin words. Waving a stick around and saying them will not a) cause magic to happen or b) summon the devil to take your soul to hell. (I know, I've tried)

2 words.

Ignorant pinheads.

[DaffyKD]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Do these people not realize that it is all made up? It can't teach children to perform spells that aren't actually SPELLS. They're just quasi latin words. Waving a stick around and saying them will not a) cause magic to happen or b) summon the devil to take your soul to hell. (I know, I've tried)

Using this woman's inane logic, all of Todd Stasser's books should be banned from school libraries too. She think her kids are going to be stuck in the various characters' bodies should her kids read them? How about Wizard of Oz, are her kids going to find their house flying to another land if they read that? By these standards, all fiction should be banned.

DaffyKD

[Drolefille]

The big one is Narnia and LOTR. But they were written by religious guys and there's like allegory and stuff so even though there's magic and dwarves and witches and elves it's ok... or something.

People are really really dumb...

[christiangirl]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

People are really really dumb...

I bet she just got a "T" on her O.W.L.S. and now she wants revenge.

Speaking of that, I wonder, since Hermione started S.P.E.W., will she start an organization for the inhumane treatment of trolls, since the very basis of the wizarding examination grading scale makes fun of them? She probably started to, then remembered that one tried to kill her.

[Drolefille]

ha ha, I'm not sure even Hermione could love trolls.

I think the social dynamics of the house elves is very interesting. Dobby seems to be a bit of a sport in that he's the only one who WANTED freedom. Now maybe that's just because his masters were the Malfoys, but which is worse, the "willing" indentured servitude of the house elves, or Hermione's insistence that she knows better than they do and trying to trick them into freedom (with the hiding of clothing)?

And they say you can't learn anything from Harry Potter...

[christiangirl]

Which is worse: watching people be degraded and enslaved in third world countries or us busting in, acting like we know better than them and trying to "free" them against their will?

Dun-dun-DUUUN!

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by christiangirl

Which is worse: watching people be degraded and enslaved in third world countries or us busting in, acting like we know better than them and trying to "free" them against their will?

Dun-dun-DUUUN!

Hey now, that's not quite what I said. The other house elves want nothing to do with Dobby. Take Winky, she's absolutely distraught over her dismissal from the Crouches. (Still!)

I do think that to fight the Dark Lord and the Death Eaters, the other magical creatures are going to be very important. All of the "bad" guys mistreat them, call them half-breeds (Firenze for example) and Dobby and Firenze are both going against their own kind's "ways" to work with the good wizards. Dobby said that Harry Potter was very important to the house elves, because "before" they were treated so much worse... just a thought.

[aopirose]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Do these people not realize that it is all made up? It can't teach children to perform spells that aren't actually SPELLS. They're just quasi latin words. Waving a stick around and saying them will not a) cause magic to happen or b) summon the devil to take your soul to hell. (I know, I've tried)

While I agree with just about every thing that you've said, I have never tried to summon the devil, there are some on LM's bandwagon who have tried and feel that they "suceeded." There are a few first hand stories on her organization's web site that state that because they wanted to know more about magic, that it lead to more intense materials. Those books led them to even darker material that didn't claim to be entertainment. Along with the new interest, it led to drastitic lifestyle changes. I thought that some of these stories sounded more like teen angst than anything else.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by aopirose

While I agree with just about every thing that you've said, I have never tried to summon the devil, there are some on LM's bandwagon who have tried and feel that they "suceeded." There are a few first hand stories on her organization's web site that state that because they wanted to know more about magic, that it lead to more intense materials. Those books led them to even darker material that didn't claim to be entertainment. Along with the new interest, it led to drastitic lifestyle changes. I thought that some of these stories sounded more like teen angst than anything else.

Realistically, if Harry Potter led them into Wicca/witchcraft and/or devil worship and/or whatever else is in this month... then anything was going to.

I agree that it sounds like angsty teens who were probably already having issues dealing with reality.

You also have to remember the biased source. I could write a lovely story about that too

[aopirose]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Realistically, if Harry Potter led them into Wicca/witchcraft and/or devil worship and/or whatever else is in this month... then anything was going to.

I agree that it sounds like angsty teens who were probably already having issues dealing with reality.

You also have to remember the biased source. I could write a lovely story about that too

Oh, I completely agree!

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by aopirose

While I agree with just about every thing that you've said, I have never tried to summon the devil, there are some on LM's bandwagon who have tried and feel that they "suceeded." There are a few first hand stories on her organization's web site that state that because they wanted to know more about magic, that it lead to more intense materials.

Perhaps LM should spend less time and energy bringing absolutely baseless lawsuits and more time and energy parenting. Parenting is not the library's job.

[AXO Alum]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

b) summon the devil to take your soul to hell. (I know, I've tried)

This just made me laugh out loud - I needed that - thanks

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by AXO Alum

This just made me laugh out loud - I needed that - thanks

Ha ha, no problem.

[Marie]

Has anyone discussed Harry being the last Horucrux? We already know that Voldemort left a little part of himself behind w/Harry, hense the scar. I don't know if this has already been discussed...I kinda skim through the thread.