# Funny Op-Ed Re: Evils of Harry Potter

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-op-ed-re-evils-of-harry-potter/143597>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 18, 2002, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-op-ed-re-evils-of-harry-potter/143597 "2002-12-18T17:22:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-op-ed-re-evils-of-harry-potter/143597/1 "2002-12-18T17:22:39Z")

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Here’s a funny op-ed piece regarding the perceived evils of Harry Potter and his wicked influence on children.

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> If my child walked up to me with a broom between her legs, chanted some gibberish and then pointed a wand at me, I wouldn’t overreact. I’d grab a camera. Then I’d grab my wife and we’d have a sit-down.
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> “Oh. It’s cute that you want to be a witch after seeing Harry Potter, but it’s important to Mommy and Daddy that you start the child actress career we talked about. Then we’ll love you.”

Plus, top ten reasons to not worry about H.P. Very good article.

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**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-op-ed-re-evils-of-harry-potter/143597/2 "2002-12-18T18:14:57Z")

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“That’s Cuckoo McGookoo,”

Hilarious. Plus I loved the top 10 list.

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**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-op-ed-re-evils-of-harry-potter/143597/3 "2002-12-18T18:23:56Z")

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Read this interesting web site somewhere or other a while back. Had a picture of J.K.Rowling on it. She was wearing some kind of opera cape looking thing with a hood.

The caption declared it to be her Ritual Black Magic Garb, suitable for sacrificing Christian babies in, as well as blaspheming, fornicating, promoting evil in general, and dancing skyclad in. Precisely how one can dance nekkid while wearing a cape is unclear, but it’s evil, so presumably J.K. could manage it.

It did make me wonder, though. I mean, the spread of lies and untruth is supposedly the Devil’s bailiwick… but it’s apparently okay to do so in the interests of vilifying J.K. Rowling, and therefore turning little children off to Harry Potter?

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**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-op-ed-re-evils-of-harry-potter/143597/4 "2002-12-18T18:39:31Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Wang-Ka \*  
> \*\*It did make me wonder, though. I mean, the spread of lies and untruth is supposedly the Devil’s bailiwick… but it’s apparently okay to do so in the interests of vilifying J.K. Rowling, and therefore turning little children off to Harry Potter? \*\*

The Lord works in mysterious ways.😃