[Aislinn]

The Demon in My Harry Potter Book
By Caltheous (A.K.A. The Evil Queen)


Abstract:

His Voice Today and Laura Mallory have argued for years that Harry Potter is demonic. This essay tracks the horrible, demonic changes Harry Potter has caused in one mild mannered American family. It also explains with clear, detailed evidence the connection that exists between many fantasy works and the covert influence of evil.

Biography:

Caltheous is the current Queen of Hell. She can be found practicing the seven deadly sins or reading the grimroire.

You can read this essay here.

This post has been edited by caltheous: 29 March 2009 - 12:12 PM

[WaggaWaggaWerewolf]

Now if this essay hadn't had some fairly serious competition it would have been my favourite! It was well thought out and well presented. The author has made some really good points. But what really led the author's family to the downslide? Was it really Harry Potter? Or was it other fantasy films waiting in the wings? There have been plenty of course. Not only Harry Potter but those Narnia books and movies. How did these movies escape Laura Mallory's eagle eye? Serious magic in them, in particular that White Witch. Especially the latest 2008 effort, which has been more corrupting than most.

Yes I am talking about Prince Caspian and 'the infamous kiss' at the end between Susan and Caspian which has caused as much online grief and aggravation as any shipping war.

Now is the time for the author to 'fess up'.

[caltheous]

Ah yes... well holy Narnia escapes persecution because it is a clear allegory for the Christ Story and ONLY the evil characters use magic. Narnia is too pure for me now... it burns the eyes!!! AHHHH!!! Like holy water.

[WaggaWaggaWerewolf]

ONLY the EVIL characters use magic in Narnia???!!! Do you really think so? There's some tricky stuff in that diamond bottle of Lucy's. It sounds uncommonly like my old Gran's faith in the restorative powers of brandy, it does. Perhaps it isn't only Uncle Andrew who knows a thing or two about hard liquor. It seems Narnia, or even its heroes, could teach the Harry Potter tribe a thing or two about the Demon Drink. Given the fluid was made from fireberries, perhaps it was Firewhiskey in that there bottle of Lucy's!

And it doesn't stop with wine, women and song, a magic of its own, according to Dumbledore. Take Trumpkin, the agnostic pipe-smoking dwarf, who is supposedly a good character, unlike depressed and bitter Nikabrik. Or was it tobacco withdrawal symptoms which got Nikabrik to summon the White Witch? Or could it be that the secret message of Narnia is one that is truly evil? That addiction to noxious substances is the best way to bamboozle good people and stop them realising that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions?

Aslan, himself, practises magic. He restores Reepicheep's tale er tail, much as Voldemort restores Wormtail's hand. Aslan dragons and undragons Eustace, creates and destroys a world, not to mention summoning a River God to tear down an inconvenient bridge. Voldemort in HBP should have eaten his heart out. If Laura Mallory had read Narnia books, she would have been horrified by what the filmmakers did to Prince Caspian, not to mention Susan. Surely she would have banned the film on the spot. That kiss wasn't in the book. And we can't have teenagers pashing now can we, not behind the author's back! But then the book, which Laura Mallory ought to have banned, has a lot of other 'holy stuff' which was left out of the film. Like maenads, Bacchus, Silenus and a whole lot of other misbehaving sorts. And they were the good Aslan's friends?

I know this does not disprove your current state, Oh gracious Evil One. But I ask you seriously, does Laura Mallory actually comprehend what she is reading? Shouldn't she damn the whole genre? Surely Laura would have been horrified at Hans Christian Andersen's The Wild Swans, where the heroine is in danger of being burned as a witch, because she was silently making these nettle shirts to magically restore her swan-like brothers? Uncle Screwtape, who thinks he has a monopoly on magic, was most disappointed that the heroine of Wild Swans actually succeeded with her magical venture.

That is the trouble. Is reading Harry Potter really the best way to go to Hell? Or has it highlighted a genre of reading material, including LOTR, Narnia, and His Dark Materials that had lain unnoticed for many years? What is your verdict O Evil One?

This post has been edited by WaggaWaggaWerewolf: 30 March 2009 - 07:37 PM

[bunya dragon]

Wow! What an interesting essay! It was worth the wait. I'm so glad you have seen the er light! Or is it the dark?

[caltheous]

I am of the same mind as Phillip Pullman, WaggaWagga. And don't let the Narnia supporters catch wind of your comments... they may realize the hidden dangers of the slippery slope that leads straight to the White Witches' lair.

This post has been edited by caltheous: 02 April 2009 - 04:56 PM

[BlondeHermione]

This essay is absolute RUBBISH. Demons, honestly? Of course they exist, but NOT IN THE BLOODY HARRY POTTER BOOKS, YOU FOOLS!!! Perhaps this pathetican raised her children wrongly, and believing there were demons, let her own mind take over her personality. J.K.Rowling is a wonderful person who inspires children to read more and more, including me! When she wrote about her son exclaiming, "This is just like magic!" with the British accent, it only eccentuates his liking of the movies. There was a scene in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets where, after he loses his memory because a spell backfired, Gildory Lockhart says those very words as he is carried, with Harry, Ron, and Ginny, on the tail of Fawkes the Phoenix. He had forgotten magic existed and the line was purely just for humour.
J.K.Rowling has inpired me to become an authour, and it's because of her that I EXCEED in every one of my classes, due to the influence of Hermione Granger.

[rosepug]

Perhaps the author should have used the Sarcasm Font for this article, as it seems at least one reader somehow missed the point. I might, using Sarcasm Font , add that the Demons which arrive with the Narnian books are not only Legion, but also Devious. How otherwise could books filled with such use of Magic, glorifying gods and mythical, magical creatures have slipped into so many Christian homes unopposed and even encouraged? And these are even more dangerous, as they are written by a famous Christian Apologist: they are expected to be filled with Truth and contain great Wisdom. JK Rowling never was held in high esteem by these folk before Harry Potter came to be, therefore they could be more on guard against what lies within.

Excellently fun essay!

[Enrak69]

Completely beautiful. Fists I truly thought you were really saying "Potter´s bad", but as I went on reading I noticed the well brained way of how you put something everyone gets to think and made it hilarious!
Beautiful! And the family portrait is great. I almost cried of laugh when I read "the source of every evil" (or something like that).

[spelljinxcursehexcharm]

I've heard of people who are against HP, but I never understood why. I do agree about how Potter Puppet Pals manipulate the books and all those song parodies. I mean, HP was never supposed to be something inappropriate, especially Dumbledore in the PPPs. I hope that people will not be against the books themselves (c'mon, they're awesome), but the PPPs: that's reasonable.