http://logosresourcepages.org/potter2.htm
My Mom is a big fan of Harry Potter and is irreligious. She is giving the
webmaster at the above URL a piece of her mind.
And the below, is funny too. From a satire site.
http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news1199/potter.html
Michael Pugliese
http://www.google.com/search?q=Harry+Potter+anti-christian&btnG=Google+Searc
h&hq=&hl=en&lr=&safe=off
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Europe/2001-01/potter280101.shtml
news | World | Europe | 2001-01
French Marxist attacks 'bourgeois' Harry Potter
By John Lichfield in Paris
28 January 2001
Harry Potter is a sexist neo-conservative meritocrat who perpetuates a
"degrading image of women". The French newspaper Libération has published
the first extended, Marxist-structuralist analysis of the works of J K
Rowling.
Would-be "progressive", "non-élitist" and "non-sexist" children are urged to
avoid the politically incorrect symbolism of the four Potter books, which
have sold more than a million copies in France.
Harry Potter, the trainee wizard, may look like an "intellectual" with his
glasses and his unruly hair, writes Pierre Bruno. Once "deconstructed," he
is "only too clearly" the hero of a "political allegory" of the triumph of
the socially ascendant (on broomsticks presumably) petite bourgeoisie.
Mr Bruno, a university lecturer in Dijon and author of a book on adolescent
culture, has applied the principles of structuralist literary criticism and
Marxist social analysis – the twin pillars of French left-wing
intellectualism – to the wizard from 4 Privet Drive.
His critique has touched off an impassioned defence of Harry and Rowling by
French publishers, teachers and parents in the same newspaper. How, they
ask, can a book be socially undesirable if it helped a generation of
children to rediscover reading?
The charge of "sexism," they say, does not stick. Harry's friend Hermione –
inaccurately presented by Mr Bruno as a stupid, ineffectual bookworm – is a
brilliant scholar who plays a pivotal role in most of the books'
comic-horrific adventures. The violent game of Quidditch, played on
broomsticks, is a unisex sport, in which girls excel alongside the boys
(unlike, say, boules).
Mr Bruno is unrepentant. Rowling, he says, has failed – despite having
studied in Paris – to take account of the "critical theories of literature
disseminated by higher education". She has not applied the ideas of such
great French thinkers as the structuralist Roland Barthes and the
unreconstructed Marxist sociologist Pierre Bourdieu.
Instead, her "traditionalist" and "conservative" political symbolism is
"only too obvious" Mr Bruno says. The four houses at the Hogwarts' School –
Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw – are competing social
groups. Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw are the lower orders, hard-working but
stupid. Slytherin "represents the propertied-classes" and Gryffindor –
Harry's house – the "ascendant" class of the bourgeoisie.
The whole series, he says, is not about the struggle of Good and Evil (as
millions of children have wrongly surmised) but about the "conflict between
established and rising classes".
Mr Bruno finds no place in his deconstruction of Harry Potter for the most
terrifying characters in the series: the Dementors, faceless, hooded figures
whose very presence chills the heart and sucks joy from the bones. Perhaps
they come too close to home.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Abdo <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 4:54 PM
Subject: [CHOMSKY] Harry Potter 'Goes Best with Coke'?
It appears that Harry Potter now joins Ronald McDonald as two of the
most evil villians alive. They should give out a 'Hansel and Gretel
Evil Witch Award' for villains that fatten up little children.
Tony
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Coke Tapped for 'Harry Potter'
NEW YORK (AP) -- You wanna be cool, muggles? Drink Coke.
Warner Bros. has picked the Coca-Cola Co. as its sole promotional
partner for the upcoming movie ''Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's
Stone,'' the soft drink giant and studio announced Tuesday.
The deal will put $150 million of Coke marketing muscle behind the film
as part of a global campaign tied to the movie's Nov. 16 U.S. release.
''It was tremendously important that we create a partnership that would
have the ability to globally support the power and magic of Harry
Potter,'' said Brad Ball, president of domestic marketing at Warner
Bros. Pictures.
The ad campaign will include the placement of Harry Potter-related
images on Coca-Cola, Minute Maid and Hi-C packaging. It won't, however,
extend to product placement in the movie or images of Harry drinking
Coke.
The campaign also will abandon common promotional gimmicks for movies
geared to children, such as sweepstakes and giveaways through fast-food
chains. Instead, literacy will be stressed.
''The key to our plan will be about relationships, local communities,
connecting with people one-on-one and looking at the things we
traditionally do in a whole new way.'' said Tom Long,
Coca-Cola division president for Great Britain and Ireland.
The film, based on the first of author J.K. Rowling's best-selling
children's novels, stars 11-year-old Daniel Radcliffe as the child
wizard and Richard Harris as his mentor, Professor Dumbledore.
In the story, Harry discovers he is among a select group of wizards when
he is invited to a world kept secret from non-magical people, known
derisively as muggles.
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