Satan is seeking any opportunity to create a doorway into his world. It doesn’t have to be through a Seance or Satanic ritual - these are obvious doorways to many people. Satan often uses the ‘back door approach’. He will use any way he can to stimulate young people’s interest and knowledge in the occult and these things are all becoming mainstream in our society. We need to be more on our guard now than ever before. Not just with Harry Potter - but with all things that take our eyes off of God. It means taking a stand against what is becoming the norm in our society and unless our young people have a firm grounding in God’s word, occultic practices will begin to appear the norm to them too. We need to be encouraging our children to seek a healthy balance in their life - teaching them discernment and helping them to make Godly decisions for themselves.
Children do not have the emotional and spiritual maturity to distinguish clearly between real life and fantasy - and this is where danger lies. In an interview with Newsweek, the author admitted that she gets letters from children wanting to be the first on the list to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (the fictitious school in the novels) as one child wrote: “I was eager to get to Hogwarts first because I like what they learned there and I want to be a witch” Gioia Bishop, age 10 (San Francisco Chronicle). If children are hoping places like this exist - where do they go from here? Across the world Witchcraft is on the rise. The Pagan federation has reported a flood of inquires from young people, since the release of the Harry Potter books and T.V shows such as “Charmed” and “Sabrina the Teenage Witch.” This is something we can’t afford to ignore!
With a sense of ‘warm fuzzies’ Rowling’s novels cleverly indoctrinate the reader into a relaxed perception of the practices of Witchcraft. The books blatantly make you ‘appreciate’ Witchcraft as something that is just ‘misunderstood’ by most people. It is portrayed as people having harmless fun, with ‘good magic’. The novels, along with T.V shows like ‘Charmed’, convince you that witches are the ‘good guys’ fighting against ‘evil. Such deception! There is no ‘good’ magic or ‘good witches’. Either you are for God or against him. There is no middle road. Let us not turn a blind eye to Satan’s schemes for we are to have “nothing to do with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them” Ephesians 5:11. We at Torrens Valley Christian school ask you to prayerfully consider this information in making your decision about the Harry Potter books.