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For real..?? wow..I see a lot of people idolizing witches and wizards esp in video games. Like one poster on the forum asked if he could beat up women..im like what?? Because they saw it in a video game that was occult based..on martial arts.
I still haven't finished the series. My sister and her husband begged me for months to watch it, so we spent probably two months watching one per weekend, but then we got to The Deathly Hallows..
Remember how the Pharoah used sorcery in the bible to copy What God did through Moses.
Witches and wizards try to emulate what only God can do, and their power is counterfeit.
I'm not sure where it's from. I heard once that due to the background of that scene, that clap is supposedly malicious.
The Bing Overseas Study Program (BOSP) today announced that it would be opening a new location at Hogwarts.
“We believe that this will be an enchanting experience for a variety of Stanford undergraduates,” a BOSP spokesperson said.
No foreign language requirement is going to be required for the new program, though BOSP wishes to remind students that Parseltounge is an option to satisfy Stanford’s language requirement.
Students attending the program will be unable to register for classes on Axess, as the Hogwarts faculty still haven’t figured out how to upload documents to the website, so students should check classes out on Cursework.
“Well, we ‘ave high hopes for the ideas Stanford students will bring,” a large bushy haired denizen of Hogwarts told a reporter for The Daily. “We’ll get along fine so long as they don’t bring any funny notions about banning a wee nip here and there.”
BOSP offices faced a flood of questions from the student body soon after announcing BOSP Hogwarts. Several students inquired about the bitcoin-to-Galleon exchange rate. Many others asked about the vegan options available in the Great Hall of Hogwarts and a third popular line of questioning lobbied for the creation of a CS+magic dual-degree program in the future.
One group especially excited about the new program was the Stanford Quidditch Team.
“We hope to have some quality practice team with our counterparts at Hogwarts, just as soon as the Stanford students vote to give us back our funding,” a representative said.
And I agree about HP nourishing kids' imaginations
Reminds me of a joke I just made up: you can tell you lack any discernment when you can't see any difference.
Sure in LOTR Aragorn never even uses magic, Sam never uses it, even when he carry's the ring for Frodo for a bit - those are the two main characters. Sam's character is about loyalty and bearing burdens. Aragorn overcomes because he is the rightful, and future King - "You shall suffer me to pass!" . Throughout the ring only gets Frodo into difficulties in the long term.
My goodness you don't seem pick much up insights when you read these books.
You have read LOTR I suppose?
Nearly headless Nick?
My comments are not based on the LOTR films by the way, but the books - what a director does with a book when it becomes a film is not the fault of the books author, particularly if he's been dead for thirty years.
I should also say i just don't like live-action realistic fantasy that much, I prefer animated. The film-makers get hung-up on massive sets and minute detail, and massive armies when none of that matters in a myth.
Haha I can guess were you are attempting to go with your argument. So I'll have a go at heading you off at the pass.
Harry Potter is not an ordinary character who uses magic once or twice when in difficulties, he is educated (initiated) in it - even more he is born into it whereas those not of that destiny are 'Muggles' - something every reader of Harry Potter has to face - a bit of a disappointment for them, since they are too.
You'll maybe say its a bit of a disappointment when for kids reading Narnia for instance, they later go to a wardrobe only to find they can slap the back of it. True it may be disappointing for a few, but in the stories they are prepared for that and are told they won't be able to just come and go into Narnia as they please - they have to be called.
The Harry Potter books don't depict ordinary people (except rather negatively) - its not like young Charlie, and his family in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
There is evidence some of the kids who read Harry Potter are mean-spirited towards those who are not into the books. So the books don't seem to successfully challenge this - which seems quite surprising therefore that in cultures with an emphasis on tolerance, and diversity, a book that portrays most of the human race as ignorant 'Muggles' becomes so popular.
Contrast the diversity of Men, Elves, Hobbits, Dwarfs, in LOTR. Each having languages, histories, cultures of their own. Then there are the Goblins, Orcs, and other assorted creatures in thrall to Sauron.
So I don't see how Harry Potter and LOTR are anything like each other. In fact it just seems to bring out the point I am making - the Hobbits are not interested in magic, they prefer 'good tilled earth'. The Ring belonging to Sauron was for his own evil purposes whether you want to talk about it being 'intelligent', or being drawn back to Sauron because his will was bent on finding it again, the ring still gave illicit powers to its wearer but also brought Frodo momentarily into the world of its owner - Sauron and the ring-wraiths.
He uses it when he is in difficulties, not selfishly as you correctly point out, but it brings more difficulties, doesn't really help - he gets stabbed by a Ring Wraith and a fragment lodges in his shoulder. A major theme is that the longer one has the Ring one is more loath to part with it, its never portrayed as neutral, or that a good character would use it benevolently if they owned it. Gandalf and Galadriel are fearful of what they might do with it, and refuse it - Galadriel remains Galadriel based on her refusal of the Ring.
That's the major difference between stories like Harry Potter and LOTR. In Harry Potter magic is neutral, just a tool, which is never the case . In LOTR its like true religion if it involves a surrender to something Good beyond themselves, and false religion when it is used to dominate others.
I am not attempting to use terms like "magic" strictly and differentiate magic from witchcraft, I am aware there is a sort of stage magic - quickness of hand - but in HP its education not in speed of hand, its witchcraft, and wizardry and occult powers the kids are being schooled in.
I welcome your comments, criticisms if I have explained it wrong.
Some of you will judge me and say I'm weird or radical, but what about the people in acts that burned their books on sorcery after they became Christ followers?
Same happen with me and pokemon, as a kid I thought it was cute and fun but wasn't until I got older I came across videos about occult symbolism and proof that it was satanic.
Part of me is hoping that this eventually becomes the longest non-game/hangout thread in CF history.
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