I don't believe that they are evil. The issue some have with these books is they believe that the Harry Potter Books encourage people, especially children, to practice witchcraft, magic, sorcery, or any other name you can come up for relying on something or someone other than God. This reliance on other sources is expressly forbidden in the bible.

Yes, if you're referring to the fact that the story is so well written and marketed that I bought the final novel in hardback for everyone in the house... Now, if you mean MORALLY evil? bah...

I find them just good fun and they stimulate the imagination and creativity in the young.I find nothing evil with stories of magic and spells.

most people have a really hard time separating fact from fiction. they think that just by presenting kids with the idea of magic and sorcery, that they're going to become satan worshipping practitioners of the black arts. that irritates me a lot. give people some credit, they're not that stupid, or that weak minded. did everyone who read green eggs and ham go out and eat them? did everyone who read fight vlub go out and start boxing in underground rings? no. and it's the same for harry potter. give me a break.

They are not evil. If you think they are evil you have your priorities wrong. Theese books do a lot of good by encouraging kids to read.

Id like to think that wasnt the authors intention ^^

Um, no. It's just make-believe. Or is it? DUH DUH DUHHH

No! Harry is a good little wizard. He always saves the day.

I think he is a fictional character and an interesting one,that represented good qualities.

No, not evil. Just poorly written, uninspired hack literature,(with a VERY small 'l'),churned out for the barely literate masses! Potter can't even measure up to a pimple on the A** of novels like, oh I don't know, The Odyssey by Homer, The Divine Comedy by Dante, Any Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle or even Around the World in 80 Days or Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne. The list of true Classic Literature with a capital "L" is so voluminous that I wonder how it is that anyone can find time for this 'tripe throwback fodder'. Oh well,as they say,"To each their own". For instance, I would challenge anyone to read this brief passage from Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and not be more emotionally moved than any 'rowling' offering, 'There was a slight noise from the direction of the dim corner where the ladder was. It was the king,descending. I could see that he was bearing something in one arm,and assisting himself with the other. He came forward in the light;upon his breast lay a slender girl of fifteen. She was but half conscious;she was dying of small-pox. Here was heroism at its last and loftiest possiblity,its utmost summit;this was challenging death in the open field unarmed,with all the odds against the challenger,no reward set upon the contest,and no admiring world in silks and cloth of gold to gaze and applaud;and yet the king's bearing was as serenely brave as it had always been in those cheaper contests where knight meets knight in equal fight and clothed in protecting steel. He was great,now;sublimely great. The rude statues of his ancestors in his palace should have an addition--I would see to that;and it would not be a mailed king killing a giant or a dragon,like the rest,it would be a king in commoner's garb bearing death in his arms that a peasant mother might look her last upon her child and be comforted.' Chapter XXIX The Small-Pox Hut

Umm, Nope. I think he's a FICTIONAL CHARACTER! Harry Potter doesn't actually exist. He's just an imaginary character, crated by one, J.K. Rowling.

I think its good entertainment and the only thing evil is I haven't got my cut :(

He is a fictional character who seems to spend his life fighting AGAINST evil. In my eyes that would make him, if he was real, the very antithesis of evil.

They glorify and embrace the Occult and draw children into the Occult as well. I hope that this is helpful. -In the Master's service. Thank you and God bless you!

People think that kids exposed to the Harry Potter books will try to become wizards. it says in the bible that sorcery is punished and evil. This i believe tho has no revelavance to the fact that it is only a book and that it is strictly entertainment. As long as you dont believe it and dont try to become a wizard or witch i believe that you are commiting no evil sin. please note that i have been christian for about a year and read the bible and go to church.

I can kind of see their point that it glorifies the occult and paints family as a bad thing. Other than that, the whole issue is really overblown. LOTR and Chronicles of Narnia are Christian allegories. What kind of allegory does that make HP?

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lmao...oh geez. because of magic? there's nothing evil about HP my goodness...