Harry Potter

I finished Harry Potter the other day. I felt a little sad putting it down, as I do with any good book--sad that I am finished reading it, and sad that I can never read it again for the first time. J. K. Rowling is a brilliant author. The entire series was simply amazing. I am already looking forward to the time when my children will read them. The Deathly Hallows was a wonderful story--as are all books in the series--full of love, friendship, sacrifice, and the struggle between good and evil.

I do not understand why some Christians don't like Harry Potter. So what that there are witches and wizards and elves and goblins and MAGIC? The last time I read The Lord of the Rings, Gandalf was still a wizard who did magic. The last time I read The Chronicles of Narnia there was still a White Witch and the magical wardrobe took those kids into the land of Narnia. I find it hypocritical to despise Harry Potter and not LOTR or Chronicles. They are ALL fantasy and they are ALL virtuous stories from which one can draw any number of Christian truths.