Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:58PM7 comments ›
Fri Jan 18, 2008 — by Rick Marshall
Vatican Still Not a Big Fan of Harry Potter
New essays examining the danger of Harry Potter published by Vatican media
If you thought the "Harry Potter is evil" furor had ended with the publication of the final installment of the series, think again. L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, recently published a pair of essays claiming to examine "The Double Face of Harry Potter."
According to one of the essays, authored by University of Florence literature critic Edoardo Rialti, the dangerous, "subtle seductions" of the Potter series blur the line between good and evil.
From WashingtonPost.com:
"[Rialti] goes on to compare Potter's acceptance of magic to Eve's acceptance of the serpent's offer in the Garden of Eden."
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Comments (7)
Marilee J. Layman (5:35 PM on Fri Jan 18, 2008)
I'm not a big fan of the Vatican. Rick, that's from a blog, not a news report.
Sal Loria (9:39 AM on Sat Jan 19, 2008)
Amazing. Harry Potter gets targeted for its religious implications while Spider-Man's deal with the devil gets bypassed.
Rick Marshall (11:28 AM on Sat Jan 19, 2008)
Marilee, I guess I should have specified that the essays were discussed in a WashingtonPost.com blog, and not the actual Washington Post. Nevertheless, the essays were legit and the WP's blogs generally fall under the same banner as the WP when it comes to facts and such. I actually read a bit of one of the translated versions of the essays, and even though I'm not a fan of Harry Potter in any sense, I know *crazy* when I read it... Wow. Interesting stuff.
Marilee J. Layman (8:33 PM on Sat Jan 19, 2008)
Actually, the WashPost and http://www.washingtonpost.com are two separate corporations, just like Newsweek and Slate.. They make a big deal about this in the ombudsman's column when people complain about the online stuff. The online does mirror the paper, but they also have AP & Reuters reports plus a lot of extras, including the blogs.
wp.com even has two home pages -- if your zip shows your're from the DC area, you get the Washington page. If it's elsewhere, you get the World/Global homepage. You can swap
at the very top of the page.
Alan Coil (10:38 PM on Sat Jan 19, 2008)
"Oh, that's a separate corporation, not us."
Right.
(Is there a font that shows letters with stuff dripping off them? Would be perfect for sarcastic posts like mine.)
Rick Marshall (5:49 PM on Sun Jan 20, 2008)
Wow. That is definitely news to me. Thanks for the catch, Marilee.
Alan Coil (10:41 PM on Sat Jan 19, 2008)
I pay little attention to what the Vatican has to say, except to mock them. They portray themselves as beings of morality, yet the priest sex scandals were covered up and allowed to continue. IMO, they gave tacit approval for the priests to continue.