Conservative Christians Give Harry Potter Their Blessing
Although the pope and other prominent Christians have registered their disapproval of the Harry Potter franchise in the past, the newest film in the series, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," is getting glowing reviews from fellow members of their fold. It's not quite on the level of WWHPD? but some are noting the teenage wand-wielder's similarities to a certain other powerful young man from a very popular book.
Although the pope and other prominent Christians have registered their disapproval of the Harry Potter franchise in the past, the newest film in the series, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” is getting glowing reviews from fellow members of their fold. It’s not quite on the level of WWHPD? but some are noting the teenage wand-wielder’s similarities to a certain other powerful young man from a very popular book.
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“As ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’ opens, we are once again reminded of the characteristics that make him something of a Christ figure,” Connie Neal writes for the evangelical Christianity Today.
“It is more likely that at the end of the viewing or reading, rather than the allure of magic … what remains are the scenes that evoke values such as friendship, altruism, loyalty, and the gift of self,” wrote L’Osservatore, the Vatican’s semi-official newspaper.
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