Harry Potter is just a harmless fictional character right? Think again. Find revealing truths about the Harry Potter rage.
Harry Potter.
Wasn’t long ago that Harry Potter was just this "harmless" novel. It was fun, interesting but just a cultural phase.
The series has now drawn the attention of not just the most influential among us, our children, but has captured the minds of adults as well. I know many adults that read and are major fans of this series both of the book and films.
But this is no child’s game anymore. It’s no "small" phase.
Children are not just being influenced but are growing up with this as a reality in their formative years. And adults are apparently not discerning enough to see the problems, spiritual problems, this is having. The series started in 1997 with Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. The American version renamed the Sorcerer’s stone. Seven years, 2 films and 4 books later this is no longer a “child’s book”.
In case you are wondering or do not know what the Philosopher’s Stone is, it has been in the circles of alchemy, and witchcrafts for centuries. Dating back to the dark ages where alchemists (who were trained in the black arts of turning base metals onto gold), regarded this mysterious unknown substance as the “holy grail” and sought it out to claim power and wealth. The stone was also thought to cure illness, prolong life, give eternal life, and bring about spiritual renewal. So the stone was more than a trinket to obtain it was a means to a universal ends.
Now you have to ask yourself why the title was changed here in America. Are we just do dumb and lazy to pick up on the black arts legacy of the stone itself, or is it a deception to lure more innocents into the world of Harry Potter, by distancing itself from the whole black magic thing?
J.K. Rowling was inspired to write this series while taking a long train ride from Manchester to London, England. She says the idea just “fell into my head.” Also that "The idea that we could have a child who escapes from the confines of the adult world and goes somewhere where he has power, both literally and metaphorically, really appealed to me."
She was divorced, living on welfare, trying to raise her infant daughter at the time and began writing the first book in a café while her daughter was taking naps over a period of 5 years.
The most recent book, Order of the Phoenix which is the 5th in a series of 7 books planned by the author J.K. Rowling, recently packed book stores with children and adults alike at the stroke of midnight just so they could be the first to read it before it went on sale that day.
Children and young teens dressing up in wizard’s regalia and claiming that “ROWLING IS A GENIUS”, young girls with tears streaming down their faces, hugging their $29.99 purchased tome, about 870 pages in length. An 8 year old girl actually “heard” the book calling to her “Buy me, read me, read me.”
In England over 7000 copies were stolen from a truck parked outside a warehouse, and accounts of people being sentenced to community service after trying to sell chapters to newspapers before the book was even on store shelves.
192 million copies of Rowling’s works have been sold around the world in 200 countries and published in more than 55 languages.
This is no game any longer this is a lifestyle, it’s influencing young minds, young intellectual minds of the lure and the age old deception that is witchcraft and sorcery.
What does God say about these practices, how should Christians view this “harmless” fictional novel?
Deuteronomy 18 9 When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. 10 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, 11 or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead.
Now many will claim that reading a simple child’s story is not practicing sorcery. Well I have shown the realities so far. People are getting wrapped up in these “harmless” activities. God tells us not to be active, thinking about, reading about, harping on, these ungodly practices.
Why? Because these things take our focus off God who is in control of everything, and puts the focus back on Man who believes or imagines that by calling up spirits or, through magic spells, he can accomplish anything. And when taken to such extremes, as we are seeing today, these practices can, do and will have a profound effect on societies and peoples’ personal relationships with God.
Galatians 5 19The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Here again God tells us to shed these sinful acts. Witchcraft is among them again. God is very clear on these issues, and we should not take them so lightly. As he warns us the kingdom of God will not be inherited by those who pursue them.
In fact ask yourself what better way for Satan to re-infiltrate the minds of people with sorcery and witchcraft but buy wrapping it all up in a “harmless” children’s book? This sounds very much to me like a Garden of Eden encounter the serpent had thousands of years before with Adam and Eve. Making God a liar, and making disobedience so appealing. Satan did so in the Garden by attacking the innocent Eve. And he is doing so again today by attacking the innocent among us, our children.
