Well, sure. Now you are. But not long ago you too thought Harry Potter was evil. After a steady diet of the Straight Dope Message Board you had a chance to reconsider.
Unfortunately, most fundamentalist haven’t been exposed to The Dope.
Why do they call it *slash *?
Cause the bible didn’t tell them so.
I don’t think that was what was meant – I think that the check had been taken to the bank, but had not yet cleared the system, which I gather in the States can take several days.
Now I know I’ve been on this board too long. I actually remember the thread about this.
Recommend some books to her, so she can spend that credit. I suggest The Necronomicon. 
www.rinkworks.com has a section called “Book-A-Minute,” where they ultra-condense literary works. For Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, they did both the primary tale, for people who read the book, and the secondary tale, for people who didn’t read the book. I think the lady in the OP has been reading the secondary tale in all the HP books.
Due to concerns that we Yanks wouldn’t know what the philosophers’ stone was, it was changed to sorceror’s stone. Until somebody told me the original title I kept wondering what the heck the sorceror’s stone was.
Why the change?
Who doesn’t know about the philosophers’ stone?
First you get yourself some prima materia. This rots and blackens in the negredo stage. Then it whitens in the alfredo stage. Next is the stage of many colors. Finally, it turns red in the rubedo stage and you’re all set to turn lead into gold, make potions of immortality, change man into superman, and get free cable.
Check scam, all the way. Oh, you betcha; it’s a transparently obvious theft attempt.
I can certainly believe a fundamentalist would go apeshit over Harry Potter books, but the evidence as presented says it was a scam.
This is truly evil. No way would Draco do anything with that dweeb Harry Potter.
Just a guess, but I think it’s because there’s a slash mark between the names of the two characters who are getting it on.
or the fundame ntalist!
I only wish I was surprised!
Got it in one: read aloud, that would be “aitchpee slash draco”
Oh, Harry Potter IS evil.
It says so here
http://www.christiananswers.net/catalog/potter-vs.html
and here
http://owl.owu.edu/harrypotter.html
Nobody notice the increasing number of children turning into bloodthirsty fiends after Parts 1 to four came out?
No I mean AFTER they got their little hands on a copy? :dubious:
Anyone remember the part where the bad guys are glorified and held up as role models that kids should emulate?
Me neither.
-Joe
Sivalensis, I’m sorry you had to deal with such a lame fundy. If she had been one of the cool ones, she would have started speaking loudly in tongues, rolled her eyes back in her head, and tried to cast the evil spirit of Harry Potter out of you and the whole store. Better luck next time.
Right at the bottom of the link regarding CS Lewis, they mentioned JRR Tolkien…was HE supposed to be evil too? Has there been outrage over the LOTR books/films/games?
Sorry about the hijack, I just HAVE to know
Look, what you all have to realize is that pretty much everything you read and everything you do is evil and the work of Satan. Once you realize this, the fundie’s job will be much simpler.
The poor fundie is like the hero in that movie “They Live.” The hero had special glasses that allowed him to see that the aliens were everywhere. The fundie has God’s special glasses (the Bible) that allows them to see Satan everywhere. See? Of course you don’t. You don’t have the special glasses.
Maastricht: I found the source for your second link (link), and thank God, it’s an “ironic essay.” Is the author of the essay just bad at being sarcastic? Or are the fundies really that crazy?
Yuck. Sorry. That really should be:
The fundie has God’s special glasses (the Bible, the Koran, the Vedas or whatever book you choose) that allows them to see Satan everywhere.
I certainly shouldn’t be singling out Christian fundie’s for my sarcasm. Carry on.
As a Scholastic employee I can tell you…this is nothing new.
The last major upheaval like this in childrens books I recall was due to the Goosebumps series.
It was IN-FUCKING-SANE:
We had a guy come into our warehouse and start throwing goosebumps books off the shelves all over the floor and screaming about how we were leading all the innocent lambs to satan’s doorstep. Luckily he wasn’t real big and removal was easy enough for us warehouse types (watch that first step off the loading doooooooooooooooooooooooooooock…Thump).
We had several incidents where sales people were disciplined for refusing to sell/promote Goosebumps books, one of them who still works for us refuses to promote Harry Potter materials but at least now she doesn’t tell people we are out of stock and suggest more “fundie-friendly” titles.
My favourite (sorry, no link) is where a fundie site cites the onion’s parody of fundy sites as `proof’ that harry potter is turning kids to satanism…