My point was that witchcraft is real. It is a real religion. HP was based on actual terminology and basic fundamentals of this very real satanic religion.
LOTR has humans, yes, but the plot is total fiction. HP increased the interest in WICCA and numbed Christians to the seriousness of it.
Remember Satan is the greatest liar ever created. the great deceiver. He twists things just enough to move you from Christs path, yet keeps it believable enough that you are convinced you are still on it.
I believe that Christians of this day, although we are true followers of Christ and believe that the gospel is the only way to salvation, we are calloused and numbed to the real truth of the evil in this world. It leaves us as enablers of the expansion and growth of evil, even though we are saved.
And that's why I actually didn't allow it in my home, we didn't read it, or watch the movies.
Well, I actually DID pick up one of the books at the library, and look at it enough to verify that it did include incantations and other things that could have been real (I don't know enough to actually be able to confirm or deny that) and to get a sense of what the characters were about, some of the motivations, and so on.
I had heard of course that it was demonic, but you can find someone who calls anything demonic. So, for the sake of making an informed decision, I checked it out and decided that that particular book wasn't appropriate for my daughter at her age. (There was no movie then, as I recall.)
So I can't comment more on HP than that.
If it was based in some reality, that might actually be the problem. I've played several series of video games, typical with magic, dragons, monsters and such. There has only been ONE game that really disturbed me. I got physically sick when I played it, and after a few times of that I destroyed it and threw it out.
That game was a puzzle game that seemed very innocuous. I believe your character was a reporter who went into the mountains in search of what happened to a group of people who had disappeared. I only got as far as some symbol puzzles carved in rocks. But I read some more after it made me so uneasy and sick and found it was based on a real situation, and some kind of ancient gods were supposedly involved.
The game on it's cover, and in playing the early stages gave no indication of this. But - it gave me the creeps, and I got sick at my stomach every time I played it. THAT one concerns me more than all the dragons, talking lions, and mermen in the other games I was playing.
That quote is one of my favorites of the whole book. The part of it I like best is the "inbetween" part of those lines "many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager etc .." When I first read LOTR as a young teen, I thought I was probably opposed to capital punishment, but that line really spoke volumes to me about why I felt so opposed. 
