My take has always been that the books are fiction, meaning not true, meaning that if I wave a stick around and yell whatever the incantation for the Bat Bogey hex is, no bat bogeys will befall my friends. I mean, it would be nice if stuff worked like that in the real world, because then I'd find me a wand, (or maybe use my cane in a pinch), wave it and yell the latin for, "Give me some money!" and then, well, that would fix a lot of things. I also don't imagine that a tough former Navy S.E.A.L. is ever going to come rescue me from terrorists, admire my feminine curves and then, with the help of his best friend, take turns ravishing me until I can't walk straight, but I've heard it said that poor fragile women who read romance novels also have this problem distinguishing from reality and fantasy. Me, I realized that when I would have been way too young for Harry Potter, and I assume that most reasonable people do, too.
Shannon At 06:24 PM 6/19/2008, Elfqueen wrote:
Well, it isn't. That's the whole point. But didn't you hear the whole ridiculous debate when the books first came out and through a good deal of the writing of the series? I'm sure it still exists, but it's not so much of an issue now. Since the terms witchcraft and wizardry are used, and other such things, like the class names (divination, etc.) it was assumed by a certain group of people that these things were being used in their true forms. We never bothered to find out whether it was true or not. My parents gave me permission to read the books when I was about thirteen or fourteen. I didn't take them up on it till I was seventeen (not quite a year ago), and even now that I've tried to dispell the myths at least for my own family, my mom gets upset every time i bring it up. (This probably has something to do with fear and partly something to do with the fact that she's aware that I do it just to drive her crazy sometimes. What can I say?)----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Roderick" <rickrod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 7:19 PM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: banned books on bookshareThe world of Harry Potter an alternate one, and if remember that the magic has nothing to do with this world, I can't see how anything is dangerous. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the Subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the Subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.-- No virus found in this incoming message.Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.4.0/1509 - Release Date: 6/19/2008 8:00 AM
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