![]() Harry turns eleven in the beginning of the first book, and, for my own kids, ten or eleven has seemed like an appropriate age at which to let them start reading the books. My own policy for most children’s entertainment is three steps: share, discuss, repeat. ![]() And if you like them, you’ll get to share them and their whimsy and humor and tragedy and powerful messages with your children. I would encourage you to read these books. But if you don’t find yourself in that situation, I would encourage you to pick up the books for yourself, and read what the stories are really about, and not blindly accept as true the unfair characterizations presented by some Christian fundamentalists, or exaggeratedly attributed to a future pope. #SIMON THE SORCERER AND THE NEW ROMAN CHURCH DEBUNKED SERIES#If you yourself, our your particular children have a temptation towards the occult or new age practices, perhaps none of these fantasy series would be a good choice for your home. (In an I-can-also-overcome-personal-tragedy-and-triumph-over-evil-and-my-baser-inclinations way, not in a hey-I-should-be-a-wizard way.) But, that makes him relatable and inspiring. ![]() In the final book we see that Harry is, like Aslan, truly a Christ-figure. The end of Harry’s story is about ultimate self-sacrifice, redemption, the fight of good against evil, and as with Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia and Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings, death and resurrection. ![]()
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