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...HARRY POTTER 10.95 million Number of copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows sold in the U.S. and the U.K. in the first 24 hours after the book went on sale July 21, a publishing record 150 Estimated number of copies sold per second in its first hour on sale...
...Love of God and Potter...
...Grossman's "The Doubting Harry" [July 23]: My generation is plugged into iPods, phones and Facebook yet disconnected from everything but apathy. Harry Potter is a modern reminder that teenagers are capable of more than what our materialistic society tells them they are. In her series, Rowling brings ideals and virtue to Harry's tortured and disillusioned realm. Perhaps by not including religious overtones, Rowling is both reflecting the world's current secularism and transcending it with a simple concept: love...
Grossman cites the lord of the rings author J.R.R. Tolkien and The Chronicles of Narnia author C.S. Lewis as Christian writers who suffused their work with religion. He then complains that Harry Potter has no one to pray to because Rowling has deleted God. Grossman ignores the Christian themes of love and free will that Rowling makes explicitly clear are Harry's only means of salvation...
After Watching Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, I asked several children in the audience if they felt that the movie portrayed a "secular, bureaucratized, all-too-human sorcery, in which psychology and technology have superseded the sacred." They all answered no. They said it was a lot of fun. Do you really think that 8-year-olds go to see Harry Potter with deep analysis in mind? They were more critical of the "yucky kiss" than of any religious undertones supposedly hidden in the script. Let children be children for as long as possible...