According to Cockrell (2004), why does the religious right in the US condemn fantasy, one reason may be the popularity, almost everywhere Harry Potter exists. Another reason may be a recent shift in the focus of censorship effort s from sex to the occult. For American religion groups, Taylor and Carlson note that many fundamentalist Christian parents associate their kids with the devil when they insist their own place at the dinner table. When children read too much about Harry Potter who start to question their beliefs and religions, social values of parents. Children began to oppose treason.
According to Cockrell(2004), Dumbledore makes magic indeed sound like philosophy, however, magic is just magic which lacks a god or a devil at the heart of it. Because of it, liberal, theologians have no trouble with Harry. At the last of article, “Harry frightens only those who want the answer to be the same every time the question is asked. In Rowling’s world, the answer is not the same.”
References
Cockrell, A. (2004). Harry Potter and the Witch hunters: a social context for th attacks on Harry Potter. The Journal of American Culture, Vol 29, No. 1
Hi, nice post. I'm not very sure about children will start to question their beliefs but I agree that the magic world is not a world that would have the divine god itself as, well, compare to the ordinary world, the wizards can do pretty much the same thing a god or godess would do in real life.
ReplyDeleteAnd as I said there is no god in that world, magic became something that they have to learn do control it. The good and evil just doesn't appear in magic itself but the people who using it. This explain why Malfoy, in the end, changes to a normal boy, away from those surrounding Voldermort. He isn't that bad, he just hate to have the attention swayed away from him lol
Magic in Rowling's world is totally like science in the real world. The only difference is not that many people can master science that easily. Voldermort then is like a mad-scientist which ambition need to be stopped by the trio heroes which setting I assume the same as the settings in Spiderman or the X-mans, they just get a bit ahead of the science ^^ Thus, the answer never them same to one question answered by many people