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sallysquirrel

Everyday is Caturday.

Oct 03, 2007 23:01

~*~ I've been sick and I've been sleep-deprived, and with their combined power, I've had a raging headache since Monday. :( And I can't rest because it's only Wednesday and I have a EngrEco test tomorrow which I haven't started studying for because of Pushing Daisies Gossip Girl Life LJ EngrEco is really boring. :( Gah, why is it only Wednesday? ( Read more... )

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sparkly_stuff October 4 2007, 04:43:05 UTC

I was at Houston Hobby airport this summer, a week after Deathly Hallows came out. While standing in line in one of the shops, behind me was this woman and at one point her teen daughter comes to her with DH and is like, "I have to buy this, I've read all the other ones and i have to know what happens!" and the mom was like, "I'm not buying that, that book is evil! Didn't you hear what they said at church?" I seriously debated with myself whether to get in a fight with the woman but decided in the end she wasn't worth my time. I have been known to get in arguments with religious HP wankers though ;)

sallysquirrel October 4 2007, 17:18:02 UTC

Yeah, religious anti-HP people are crazy. Do they not realize that if HP is "evil", then so is basically every single children's fantasy story/fairy tale/etc because they all have "pagan magic" or whatever? They can't be against Cinderella, can they?

spamchang October 4 2007, 18:32:34 UTC

get some sleep :( don't use iTunes! i boycott iTunes. i just use winamp...

why does everything devolve into a pro/anti Christian debate around here?

sallysquirrel October 4 2007, 18:56:46 UTC

Key point: Christians who think Harry Potter books promote witchcraft, with a 17th century connotation of that word. I assume that's like 0.2% of all Christians.

spamchang October 4 2007, 19:04:23 UTC

if you stick the question to them, you might find the percentage to be higher. is HP about witchcraft? sure (though perhaps not in the satanic sense, and this is where most of the split will be). does HP promote witchcraft? yes, even more so than HP is about witchcraft.

so the hairs get split about whether the "brand" of witchcraft in HP is really witchcraft. obviously HP witchcraft is less malignant than the reports of drugged up midwesterners sacrificing live children in rural areas (yeah...), but at the core of it, that last 0.2% can make an argument that people who derive supernatural powers from innate talent are still witches practicing craft.

you in lab right now?

sallysquirrel October 4 2007, 19:43:06 UTC

does HP promote witchcraft? yes, even more so than HP is about witchcraft.

Wtf, hell no. Are you seriously saying that HP books are trying to convince its readers that the magic world is real and that the readers should try the spells out for themselves with the expectation that the spells will work? Because that would be my definition of "promoting." Also, like I said in the other comment, how is HP different from every other story/tv show/movie in the fantasy genre?

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