Christians/Theists... why is it that ya'll think Harry Potter "bad"

[Jenny A]

Yea Drich, shouldn't you be able to tell us about the evidence that persuaded you that witchcraft is real? Or did you just believe it along with the rest of the bible?

The point I was making and you all seem all too eager to verify is that by accepting fictional accounts of things like witchcraft and sorcery, you have turn a blind eye to how it truly manifest itself.

Sorcery is not about harry potter magic, it is about using things like herbs and chants to get a desired result, from something as small as getting rid of a head ache or giving someone a head ache to killing them or healing them. Sorcery is about seeking means of changing one's situation outside of God. It is seeking to by pass God in hopes to control or manage one's own life, through other 'powers.'

Ah, like chemists, engineers, and physicists?

Seriously, I do understand the Biblical idea of sorcery as a pact of the devil or other god to gain unnatural powers. It's fiction, but I do get the gist. However, the witches and wizards of the Harry Potter universe don't do any such thing. They use innate (perhaps god given powers) for better or worse. It's no different than the powers of Spiderman, Superman, or Gandalf.

There is only one real sorcerer in the Biblical sense in the series. That's the bad guy who tries to gain immortality by breaking his soul apart through the act of killing people. And ultimately, Voldemort is not suffered to live. The books climax with his death.