I started reading Harry Potter when I was 15. Since then I've been having nightmares about Hell and sometimes about demons. I've heard of many others like me were having those dreams as well after reading Harry Potter. I'm now 22 and I realized that if I weren't a christian the nightmares would've been worse. Do you think is good to be teaching children to be a wizard?
2006-11-28 08:35:49 · 18 answers · asked by Lady Di 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
No, it's not good at all. The movie and books are training and indoctrination into witchcraft.
2006-11-28 08:43:38 · answer #1 · answered by swissmiss620 4 · 1⤊ 11⤋
Okay.
#1 If you are having dreams about demons and Hell then it's not Harry Potter that is causing you to have those dreams. Those are either your own imagination or something else you have seen, because HP has nothing to do with that.
#2 It is not teaching children to be a wizard. It is a story about a boy who goes to a school for wizards, tells about the subjects, but is certainly not teaching you to be a wizard! These are great books. They have only done good, they have made children and adults love to read again! It is an entertaining book, which leads me to
#3 This is just entertainment, not real life, that is why it is called FICTION. If you are Christian and were brought up to strongly believe in your faith, these books or movies or anything else should never sway your faith and make you think to become a wizard. I hear a lot of people in the news and on mugglenet saying things like these books are 'satanic' and silly things like that and to keep them away from their kids. At least half of the people who have the problems with the books admit to never reading them! If they did their feelings would be different. I'm glad you have actually read them, but I do not believe that the result of reading HP was having dreams of demons. I have never had dreams like that and I am a Catholic and a Christian and there is nothing wrong with these books. People are turning them into something that should be banned, when it is a just a bit of fun and a good read.
No, it is not a bad influence to children, it's a great one. Peace.
2006-11-28 11:24:15 · answer #2 · answered by Norah 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Harry Potter has nothing to do with Hell. Or demons for that matter. My kids have loved Harry Potter since they were 8,6, & 3 years old. We have, as a family, always enjoyed reading and listening to the books on tape. They are wonderful stories about a bright boy. A boy that rises above his awful home and knows what and how to be a loyal friend. I'm sorry you suffer from nightmares, but I find it hard to believe that they are a result of reading these books at age 15.
Do you get nightmares from watching horror movies? Or reading Stephen King? Do you get nightmares from reading the bible? there are some pretty mean passages in that as well.
Harry Potter is about so much more than the whole wizzard thing. And the books certainly do not teach anyone how to become one. Even a Bishop of the Catholic Church wrote a charmming review of Harry Potter series a couple of years ago. It was published in a Catholic newspaper that was dropped on my front pourch.
2006-11-28 08:55:58 · answer #3 · answered by Barbiq 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
First of all, Harry Potter is Fiction. Those books have made hundreds of thousands of children interested in reading, so if anything, I think Harry Potter is a GOOD influence for children.
I'm 45 years old and I've read every Harry Potter book that JK Rowling has written, and I think they're great!
Everyone has nightmares now and again, it's normal to have them.
2006-11-28 09:39:01 · answer #4 · answered by kattsia 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, I don't think that Harry Potter is a bad influence. I think what you're doing is tying two unrelated things together.
I'm not a Christian, and I've read the Harry Potter books a couple of times each. I've never had a single nightmare about Hell or demons.
At any rate, Harry Potter isn't about teaching kids to be witches and wizards. Harry Potter is about standing up for what you believe in, regardless of the potential cost to you. It's about realizing that the world around you isn't necessarily what it seems, but that anyone can adapt if they try hard enough. And it's about working together to face the biggest foes. The lessons in the Potter books are quite universal.
2006-11-28 08:43:16 · answer #5 · answered by Brian L 7 · 8⤊ 1⤋
Since there were no demons or hell in the Harry Potter books, I don't see how you could possibly see a connection. It sounds like you might have had a reaction to either something by Stephen King or a fellow horror writer, or else you let yourself listen to some of those wackos who insist that Harry Potter is evil, and those people and their lunatic rantings led to your nightmares. Just remember that there's a difference between fantasy and reality, which is something that many zealous lose sight of.
And how could you draw a connection between reading Harry Potter and learning to be a wizard? Again, the books are fantasy. If you're serious and not trolling, I'd honestly suggest that you try talking with a therapist who can help you better differentiate between reality and fantasy. You might be helped by medication or therapy.
2006-11-28 10:43:42 · answer #6 · answered by Rose D 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Its that whole magic thing isn't it? Then let's just get rid of the Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow White, Cinderella, Walt Disney, the books of King Arthur, Aesop's Fables, the ancient world's mythologies must go too. Say good-bye to the gods of Olympus, the legends of the native American tribes, the books of Egyptian lore, the Viking Sagas, Beowulf, Grendel, those Asian stories of dragons and their works, the Celtic legends, bye-bye Cuhlcholen (sp error), the Tales of the Arabian Nights. What else inspires imagination? Oh Science-Fiction has to go to...StarTrek, StarWars, ET, well Speilburg in general, comic books. Can't have any heroes giving youngsters some wierd concept of right and wrong. Reruns of 'Touched by an Angel', Highway to Heaven, oh lets just toss out the whole Christmas movie thing while we're at it. You're right, this imagination sparking curiosity, and the urge to learn is too dangerous to let go on. So put on your tan uniform and your jackboots, and setup the time and place for the book burning to take place. The people must be kept ignorant at all costs. OH! The writers and actors of these atrocities should probably be rounded up and put in a camp befor they spread anymore fun or inspiration. I'm so glad there are people like you who want to spoil the fun, because you lack the ability to explain to your child(red) the difference between real and imagined, to protect us from our primitive ways. So, what do I think? I think you need to build a time machine and travel to 1940 Germnay and see what people like you can do to/for the world. Or 200 Afghanistan or Iraq. 1914 Russia. Don't ever complain about literacy after posting this either please.
2016-03-13 00:15:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
OK dude I'm so tired of this. My mom is a wiccan yes the religion I know how horrible, anyway you know shes a real one in a coven and all that she doesn't have a wand or anything shes in the religion not the type of people or whatever. The Wizards in 'Harry Potter' are NOT wiccans there for your full of s**t they didn't give you nightmares nor does reading these books make you a bad christian!
2006-11-28 11:35:16 · answer #8 · answered by dracomalfoy_wants_harrypotter 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ok, so youre telling us that you started to read the Harry Potter books and THAT NIGHT you had nightmares about hell and demons? Frankly, I dont believe you.
I have read all of these books published so far, and they are hardly a "how to" for kids aspiring to be witches and wizards. It is a story about friendship, loyalty, sticking to your convictions, responsibility, good vs evil and growing up. The characters just happen to have FICTIONAL magical powers.
While it is feasible that you started reading Harry Potter at 15, (to the girl a few answers up from me who called the asker a liar, HP was first published in 1997 in the UK and 1998 in the US, sorry to burst your superiority bubble) I doubt you would have kept reading if that was your suspicion, that the book caused your nightmares
I think what you REALLY need is psychiatric help, and to stop asking questions on teh intarweb
2006-11-28 10:21:42 · answer #9 · answered by Together 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't think it teaches children "to be a wizard." I don't see how there is a direct correlation with your nightmares and others. television has so many worse things on. I mean when you watch a show where someone gets murdered, and years later you dream of murder you don't directly relate it to something you have seen or read before. I think Harry potter is a wonderful series of books that does just what it is suppose to do, stimulate a child and sometimes adults thirst to read.
2006-11-28 08:45:56 · answer #10 · answered by yaya 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
First off, YOU LIE! the Harry Potter books have only been out for 6 years NOT 8 (22-15=8) so I'm affraid your math is mistaken. I am 16 and have been reading them since I was 10 and I am fine, infact, the topics and Ideals discussed in the Harry Potter books Inspried me and my Girlscout troop (of wich I am still an active member) to make a new state law!
State Rock
On March 9, 2004, Yule Marble became the official state rock of Colorado. The Bill, introduced by Girl Scout Troop 357 of Lakewood, Colorado and signed by Governor Bill Owens (R), rekindled some interest in the quarry and the area. A museum about the quarry was proposed relatively recently, but encountered opposition from some town residents and remains in limbo.
and inspired me to write three stories of my own (two of which can be viewed on the second link in resources.) Just because they use magic in the school doesn't mean they are evil, infact, if you think about it, Dumbledore (think "Godly" i mean, look at his description, impossably old with flowing white beard...") is the only thing that scares Voldemort (think Devil...) so it's really about destroying the ultimate evil... it's a good Ideals book.
They are not evil and I think your problems are in your head and not on paper. No offense but it's people blaming books for their problems that starts book-burning and such. besides, the only book I could think of that would be a bad influence is "How to be a Mass Murderer for Dummies" or "Bomb-Building for Kids!"
I'm sorry but I think you are mistaken.
If anything i've said offends you then I'm sorry but I'm not here to make enimies. you asked what I thought and I told you.
2006-11-28 09:52:04 · answer #11 · answered by ichigo_li2 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋