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Not Quite Narnia: The Harry Potter books in review - JASON BOFFETTI

With five million copies in hardcover and three million in paperback, the Harry Potter series is a dramatic success. But not everyone is wild about Harry. Read more...

Is Harry Potter Good for Our Kids? - Vivian W. Dudro

Of course, all great literature illustrates the dark side of human existence; however, the best authors do not intend darkness itself as entertainment. Read more...

Some Thoughts on the Harry Potter Series - Michael D. O'Brien

There is currently a strong controversy raging over J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. Because I have six children of my own, all of them avid readers with an interest in fantasy literature, I have followed it closely. Read more...

Harry Potter and the Paganization of Children’s Culture - Michael O'Brien

Author Michael O'Brien sets the Potter books and their impact within a larger discussion of the proper role of myth and fantasy in literature and an explanation of "the baptized imagination" as expressed in the writing of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkein, and George MacDonald. Read more...

Tolkien and Rowling: Common Ground? - Michael O'Brien/Sandra Miesel

Michael O’Brien’s sweeping and popular critique of the Harry Potter books is criticized in a letter to Catholic World Report by Sandra Miesel of Indianapolis. O’Brien’s response follows. Read more...

Why Harry Potter Goes Awry - Zenit

Reasonable Christian parents would not permit their children to read a series of enthralling books depicting likable young people involved in drug-dealing, or premarital sex, or torture. We would not give our children fiction in which a group of "good fornicators" struggled against a set of "bad fornicators." Why, then, have we accepted a set of books which glamorize and normalize occult activity, even though it is every bit as deadly to the soul as sexual sin, if not more so? Read more...

Dumbledore has been diminished - Barbara Kay

Harry Potter series author J.K. Rowling has caused a sensation by revealing that the beloved headmaster of Hogwarts and Harry Potter’s mentor, protector and sometimes surrogate father, Albus Dumbledore, is gay. Read more...