Harry Potter Controversy.

Number of total Harry Potter books sold worldwide: over 400 000 000.
Number of languages Harry Potter has been translated into: 68
One in 5 literate kids aged between 10 and 16 have read Harry Potter


This surely makes JK Rowling the most popular childrens author! Now are you really all going to sit there and tell me that these books are EVIL?
The theory goes that JK Rowling is, in fact, a Wicca, the spells are all real, or derived from real spells, and the  book isn't as fictional as we'd all like to believe.


I strongly disagree.
I have yet to see a child who has read the books start drawing pentagrams, or chanting spells.
Maybe we should never teach our children to read that would solve a lot of problems, oh and we had better get rid of the TV, you never know what kind of subliminal messaging they send over the air waves, well that also gets rid of all radios music could contain hidden messages as well,I guess the safe way is just to keep our children inside the shelter of our homes and make sure they never get any outside interactment. ITS JUST A BOOK!


 Harry Potter was designed to entertain youth and nothing more. If you believe that the Harry Potter books are satanic just because you have to expand your mind and use your imagination then why not ban literature altogether?
If you think that because there is witchcraft in the novels that it supports satan and defies God, then you are definitely mistaken. The reason there is witchcraft and magic? It is EXCITING it ENTERTAINS children. It keeps their minds OPEN. If you have ever read these books you will see that the word "LOVE" comes out very often. Harry, like all human beings has the ability to LOVE. This is specifically emphasised in the 6th and 7th books.

Just because J.K. Rowling wants to write a series for children and give them a world to escape to from everyday life doesn't mean it's wrong. Children are innocent creatures who have a lot to deal with now-a-days. It is harder at home for some children, sometimes they need a place to go to where they can just relax, calm down, re-charge. It does not mean that because they escape to this magical place that they are going to defy their parents. They are not going to go out of their way to rebel. They are just going to enjoy their childhood. Come on, open up your mind a little bit. Don't be so quick to condemn. Imaginary friends that children have, do you think they, too, are demonic and because they have them they will grow up to be "devil worshippers?" Do you not see how ridiculous you are being?

J.K. Rowling is a very talented and gifted author. This is because she uses metaphors in her writing. If you think about it, Voldemort and the Death Eaters are the bad people in our world. Harry Potter and the Order are the good people. Voldemort represents all of the horribleness in the world - racism, prejudice, the "pure" bloods being better than the "muggle-borns", discrimination. Harry Potter is against this. He believes in EQUALITY and LOVE of all people and creatures. The goblins, the house-elves - they only signify the different races among us. Didn't Adolf Hitler have the same views as Voldemort? Didn't he believe that the jews be anhilated just because their race and religious views? That is the same as Voldemort.


Here are reasons why Harry Potter is not witchraft in disguise.

1. Wiccans believe that magic is simply channeling the natural energy of the earth and living things to make things happen in a certain way. There is no mention of anything like this in Harry Potter, it seems to me that magic comes from inside the people, or from the wands, or . . . somewhere else. Who knows? 
2. Supposedly, everyone has the potential to be a witch (male or female, they're both called witches) in Wicca. Some people are stronger than others, but no one is completely barred from ever achieving anything. In Harry Potter, there are magical people and Muggles. Muggles cannot do magic no matter how hard they try. It's like a genetic thing. People who have terrible singing voices can't sound like Julie Andrews no matter how hard they try. 
3. Wicca is a religion.  Magic in Harry Potter is not a religion. Just because you happen to be able to turn your teacher's wig blue doesn't mean you can't lead an active life in whatever religion your family follows. Who knows, it might even help the magic. Besides, Sirius Black is Harry's godfather, which suggests some sort of Christian baptism . . .
4. Wicca is not a religion based on magic. It is an earth-based religion, in which the practitioners worship a male and female deity, and the elements (earth, water, air, fire, and spirit) are sacred, as is all nature. The magic merely stems from this belief, the belief does not stem from the magic. In Harry Potter, there is ONLY the magic. No gods and goddesses, no pentagrams, no element control practicing. Just magic.
5. Harry Potter has all the stereotypes of magic. Potions, spells, crystal gazing, robes and pointy hats, wands, tea leaves, transfiguration, vampires, flying broomsticks, werewolves, unicorns, centaurs, and all those other beings of superstition. Wicca is basically trying to counteract all the stereotypes.  They don't wear the stereotypical pointy witch hats and robes with moons and stars on them, are incapable of anything approaching transfiguration, they definitely do not ride broomsticks, and dismiss mythological beings just like everyone else. Wiccan potions are used to – as they put it – cast spells, and often the maker takes the potion themselves to enter a different state of consciousness. Their potions are not used to give people warts, make things shrink, regrow bones, or anything that Harry Potter potions are used for.

  And another clarification: Wiccans are not devil-worshippers. They despise evil just as much as any Christian does. A basic principle of their faith is that anything bad you do to another person will come back upon you three times as bad.
  Well, there you go. I've tried to be as objective as possible, and I'm just trying to educate people as to what Wicca is really about, so they can defend Harry Potter when the need arises. Again, I firmly state, I am not Wiccan.. If any Wiccans out there find any errors, I'm sorry! Feel free to correct me! I'm just trying to state the facts.