i thunk so

We already knew Harry Potter was a ruse to “sillify” witchcraft for children and make spells and incantations seem somehow harmless — something even a child could master.

The Harry Potter evolution is a perfect picture of evil at work.

The first book (and subsequent screenplay) in the series introduced young readers to a whimsical world of children at play — children just beginning to explore the wonders of the magical realm. It was like something kids might experience in their dreams at night — flying, quidditch, giants and other “wondrous” creatures from the imagination of J.K. Rowling.

It began innocently enough, but with each book the characters all began to take on increasingly dark personalities. It became obvious that the more Harry came to understand the powers of “magic,” the more the power at his disposal began to present a moral dillemma for him.

I’m not writing anything earth-shattering here. I’m sure all of this was intentional on the author’s part…and that’s my point. The series attracted throngs of young readers and quickly became wildly popular. It soon became a literary standard for kids everywhere — if you weren’t reading Harry Potter, you were just a bit uncool. Now the youthful fans were addicted, and it become much easier to begin to indoctrinate them and scare them. But of course, they simply had to find out what would happen to Harry in the next book.

Evil is something that is regularly disguised as harmless fun. It is a two-faced predator. If it shows its true colors at the very first, potential victims will run away screaming. Evil must soothe its prey into believing that no threat of harm or ill intent exists. It is a wolf in sheep’s clothing — a Venus fly trap.

The Harry Potter saga was a devolution into a world of evil and death — a slow, downward spiral into the pit of hell. “But Harry wins in the end!” you say. Good triumphs over evil? Really? At what expense? How did it really end?

J.K. Rowling, much like the hero of her now-concluded Harry Potter series of novels, was allowed to toy with the minds of millions of children. Parents all over the world willfully exposed their children to witchcraft for the first time — many of those same parents would never dream of bringing a Ouija board into their home, let alone having their kids play with it. Millions of children are now having nightmares which may as well be ripped from the pages of Rowling’s works.

Innocence is a frail thing. Many parents who pride themselves as pro-family conservatives were among those who delighted in the new excitement and fervor for reading that their children seemed to have discovered. They eagerly rushed out to buy every single Harry Potter novel — after all, wasn’t it amazing how little Johnny and Susie seemed to be able to sail right through a 500-page novel? All the while your kids were being stuffed into an abyss of fear and darkness.

Then, even after the series had concluded, Rowling had to make headlines one more time by sticking it to all the parents who might have begun to realize that they had squandered their childrens’ innocence on a worthless heap of paper and ink. She announced that Dumbledore was, in fact, a gay man. She described his inner torment and repressed love for another male character referenced in the series.

Was there a reason to make this declaration? I say of course there was a reason. Dumbledore was one of the series’ most beloved characters. He was a grandfatherly figure who was always both the watchful father figure as well as the junkyard dog when the situation required it. Readers quickly came to see him as the protector of Harry Potter.

Now, with the series finished, Rowling decided it would be nice if she proclaimed Dumbledore’s homosexuality — not because it was essential to his character development or the plot (the series is finished, remember?). She couldn’t resist one final twist of the knife that is already embedded in the imagination of your kids’ minds forever.

Are your kids any better for having read the Harry Potter series? Are you that unimaginative that you couldn’t find anything wholesome and well-written for your kids to read? Witchcraft is evil. Those who seek to further it are evil. Those who would abuse the minds of children and seek to indoctrinate them in the ways of evil are the lowest form of life in existence — I consider Rowling to be in that category.

Filed by JP at 9:30 am under Rants, Opinions
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