"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"

That doesn't even make sense!

D...>>>I don't agree at all with the opinion of those who stated that they were approving of Harry Potter.  What is curious is the headline about "The Vatican lauded......", which makes it sound like the Pope approved.

This past weekend I attended a very powerful retreat given by a priest that definitely did not have any praise for Harry Potter and the insidious way that it can lead young minds astray.

In fact, this priest was in demand for performing deliverances for all kinds of wrong activity that people get themselves involved in.  His sharings was a powerful witness to the damage that such involvements do to Christianity, and how it affects the individuals involved.<<

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I posted this because I didn't know what to think of it. I was quite sure that most Catholics would not approve of movies with a story line that has children attending a school to learn witchcraft, although I don't know what this recent Harry Potter film involves.

Yes, involvement in the occult can be dangerous - many people unaware do things to open doors in their own lives, never knowing just how costly it will be for them later on.

I share your reservations about the Potter material. While it does nto 'teach' occultic magick as such, it is a literary fantasy world after all, it does not do enough to show the dnagers of occultic thinking in kids nor is it free from all actual occultic language and references hidden in the text.

All literature has a base conflict of 'good' with 'evil', that is true, but how one defiens good and evil matter more than just that there is the conflict or that the 'good' wins. For me the potter books and films are just not good enough to be read or viewed, not evil as such, but not much good either. Sure there are some fun bits, cleaver and even affirming of good thigns like friendship and courage, but there is also a lack of moral seriosuness in the dismissla of bad behavior and the use of magick by supposed 'good' characters pmagick here being occultic minipulative magic, as opposed to stagecraft or just natural abilities yet to be explained, magic].

So I think praising this stuff is too much and less than perceptive, as is some of the negaitve overblown damning of it.