Pottermania!

So many periodicals and news writers have gone to the trouble of analyzing the Harry Potter phenomenon. Anita Oliver in "Adventist Review" concentrates her concern on five points: (1) The use of power; (2) revenge; (3) the struggle between good and evil; (4) imagination; and (5) the occult.

Following is a letter to the editor from a person in Norway:

" Being a blue-eyed Scandinavian, I can't help wondering why evangelical Americans are so concerned about J. K. Rowling's fantasy product Harry, while they support a real-life president who certainly (1) gives the world a strong example of the use of power to show off; (2) threatens the world with revenge and actually does it; (3) forces all of us to take sides with him or against him in the struggle between what he defines as good and evil; (4) shows signs of a vivid imagination or limited knowledge about the world; and (5) claims to be Christian but behaves and speaks as a heathen cowboy.

Whom should we primarily warn our children about following? The imaginary Harry Potter, or the pretend-to-be-real U.S. president George W. Bush? "

I sure wish I had written that!!!