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Not wanting to wade in on the Potter Debate — but here is some more on the Potter Project.
Nearly 200 children twitched with excitement at the church the other day as they watched the Sorting Hat of the Harry Potter books come to life onstage for the first day of the series. But when the hat announced that all the children, mostly second through fifth graders, had been assigned to the Slytherin House, the home of young Harry’s archenemy, Draco Malfoy, one of them shouted from the middle of the theater, “I don’t want to be evil!”
Adults dressed up as Harry’s professors had to stifle laughs.
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What if we dressed up the kids like Osam bin Laden? Wouldn’t we get the same reaction? And, what would we have proved? What would we have taught the kids? Would they understand that they are sinners? Or, would they be led to believe that they are righteous (relative to Osama or Draco Malfoy or Saddam Hussein) and, therefore, do not need a Savior?
This isn’t about what books we should or should not read. This is about, should we use what is evil to teach what is good?
Think about it.