The dumbest protest I've ever seen...

[Bunny the Veggie Slayer]

I've always wanted to be there when someone went off on a tirade about how evil the HP books are... Just so I could lend them one of my Harry Dresden books.


Now THAT'S evil.

[ExRetailDrone]

Dumb and polite . The funny thing is that the magic in the Potter books are so obviously fake. What does those protesters think will happen if children point a wand at someone and say "petrificus totalis"?

I should try that with the wand I bought at the Harry Potter theme park Oh, if only it could work *wistful stare*

As far as the OP goes, that is a very odd protest. At least the kid didn't cause a scene and was polite about it. Could have been much, much worse, but then that might have livened things up with pretty red and blue strobe lights

[Sapphire Silk]

Dumb and polite . The funny thing is that the magic in the Potter books are so obviously fake. What does those protesters think will happen if children point a wand at someone and say "petrificus totalis"?

Don't know what they think . . . do know I wish I'd had a spell like that (that worked) in middle school . . . would have made my life a whole lot easier.

[MoonCat]

I've always wanted to be there when someone went off on a tirade about how evil the HP books are... Just so I could lend them one of my Harry Dresden books.


Now THAT'S evil.

POLKA WILL NEVER DIE!!!!!!!!!


(I love Harry Dresden)

[jedimaster91]

I would like to be able to apparate, that would save me a lot of time and money for gasoline.

This x1000.

[Eisa]

Oh, I wish I could use magic...I would have so much fun.

My mom used to be very much on the "Harry Potter is evil because it has witchcraft!!11one1!" side. I remember I got the first movie for my birthday and while my mom was at church, my dad, sister, and I watched the movie--when she came home, we just changed the channel to static and smiled angelically. And then finished watching it lol.

[PepperElf]

wow i didn't know the vatican approved it.
cool beans.

[Seriously?]

Harry Dresden is AWESOME.

[Crawling_Chaos]

"The building was on fire....and it wasn't my fault"

Oh and Bob. Nothing beats a lecherous spirit of knowledge.

[flutes_and_fabric]

I live in the middle of nowhere and before I got my license (omg, I can't believe how long ago the first book came out) the only places around were a vineyard (not very kid friendly) and a church (we could sometimes borrow a horse to take into town, there was a tack and feed station there to leave them at, but we had to agree to groom them after wards and sometimes muck out the stalls). The church does movies on the lawn every week and so we walked out and it was harry potter. Absolutely no one was upset, but then there was a great divide in the town because a large number of people on the other side of the area decided it was the devils work.

[Difdi]

Pointing a wand at someone who is hysterical about the books "teaching kids magic" and incanting a "spell" brings up an interesting psychological point.

Would a "petrificus totalus" spell actually work on a person who firmly believes the magic is real? If they're so totally invested in it being real and evil, would they allow themselves to be unaffected?

People have been known to die of absolutely no detectable physical cause except a shaman pointed a special stick at them and said their name. Simply because they knew beyond any doubt that they must die if that was done to them. And so they just died.

I wonder what the threshold of belief is for something like that, and if any of the crazies who want to ban childrens books for depicting magic cross that line?

[Mikkel]

I wonder what the threshold of belief is for something like that, and if any of the crazies who want to ban childrens books for depicting magic cross that line?

You could try an "Avada Kedavra" when you meet one . Would it be murder if it works?
(Of course the Ministry of Magic will send you to Azkaban.)

[dalesys]

You could try an "Avada Kedavra" when you meet one . Would it be murder if it works?
(Of course the Ministry of Magic will send you to Azkaban.)

Death by Gullibility!

[BlaqueKatt]

(Of course the Ministry of Magic will send you to Azkaban.)

If I could have Sirius Black or Bellatrix LeStrange as my cellmate I'd go willingly.....

[BeeMused]

People have been known to die of absolutely no detectable physical cause except a shaman pointed a special stick at them and said their name. Simply because they knew beyond any doubt that they must die if that was done to them. And so they just died.

That reminds me of a story were an indian skeptic challenged a tantric guru life on TV. The guru had claimed he could kill people just by a specific ritual. The guru couldn't find a way to avoid the challenge and tried and tried and tried... He had to be remininded that pressing the temples of his victim hard doesn't count. The TV station canceled the following programs and continued the life broadcast, only to see the guru fail misserably. There are videos of that on youtube, the guru getting more and more frantic, the skeptic staying alive and smilling.