Are you planning to see the new Harry Potter movie?

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I saw it on Saturday with MIL. We both liked it and thought it was well done!
 
I went with my 2 daughters. It was an excellent movie but I do think there were some things left out from the book.
 
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Nope, I don’t have the slightest inclination to read or watch Harry Potter, and neither does my husband. People with no experience in the occult generally do not see the problem with these novels because there are so many more charming, innocent details. However, according to this article in Envoy, reading these books touches the “occult fingerprint” of people who were involved. This causes their souls to be troubled in a supernatural way. Why have your soul touched in an occult way for the sake of entertainment? And by the way, rocklobster, I don’t really take delight in reading about murder either. I have stopped reading many a secular book because it troubled my soul/heart with graphic violence, immorality, and/or foul language, even though the story was incredibly interesting. I found myself feeling distressed even after I put the book down and knew that it wasn’t good for my soul. You have to have the strenght to put it down (or in the case of movies, turn them off).

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Oh well -thats your loss. I , OTH, now know how to defeat dragons, how to decipher the secret message from a golden egg, kow how to rescue friends who are chained underwater in a state of suspended animation and know how to defeat Lord Voldermort.

If you find you need help in any of these areas please email me and ill help you out-that is if you can accept help from someone tainted by an “occult fingerprint”.

I will be out for a while however-I have a “ring” i need to get rid of…
 
havent seen it yet but plan to. I do have a good “excuse” though, it doesnt come out here in Hungary until tomorrow 😃 so hopefully, I’ll see it in the next week or so.
 
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estesbob:
I will be out for a while however-I have a “ring” i need to get rid of…
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How did you?..you don’t??..!!! :eek:

(reference: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)
 
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estesbob:
Oh well -thats your loss. I , OTH, now know how to defeat dragons, how to decipher the secret message from a golden egg, kow how to rescue friends who are chained underwater in a state of suspended animation and know how to defeat Lord Voldermort.

If you find you need help in any of these areas please email me and ill help you out-that is if you can accept help from someone tainted by an “occult fingerprint”.

I will be out for a while however-I have a “ring” i need to get rid of…
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Luckily I have never experienced the occult, so like yourself, have no first-hand knowledge of what it’s like. I choose to take the word of people who HAVE been there. Well, as far as learning how to decipher an egg, I know how to survive the plague as a 9 year old girl in Holland after your parents die from it, how to escape from a prison ship, survive an elephant attack, and just how ugly and painful it is when a maimed person is eaten alive by vultures in the middle of the jungle. Then I started to learn what it’s like to have an army ant bite one’s eardrum and I decided it was time to put down Wilbur Smith’s “Blue Horizon.” The stories were fabulous, but it just wasn’t worth putting that stuff into my soul. If there is a 0.000000000000000001% chance that reading it will affect me spiritually in a bad way, it’s not worth it. Find something else. You have to put your own entertainment second to your eternal soul. And if you don’t see it that way, we’re just on different levels of our spiritual journey. I agree with you that it is “my loss.” I would probably enjoy the stories. Oh well. I said I was done in this thread, but since someone directed a comment at me, I decided to respond.
 
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CatholicSam:
You have to put your own entertainment second to your eternal soul. And if you don’t see it that way, we’re just on different levels of our spiritual journey. I agree with you that it is “my loss.” I would probably enjoy the stories. Oh well. I said I was done in this thread, but since someone directed a comment at me, I decided to respond.
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It has absoultely nothing to do with our Spiritual journey. The idea I have put entertainment second to my eternal soul is complete , utter nonsense. One of the most absurd assertions I have EVER seen made-and believe me have seen a lot.

Still ill hleo you decipher that Golen Egg if the need ever comes up…
 
It’s just a book. I have read all of them and I am saving them for my Neice and nephew and my children. I dont have any yet and my niece isnt even 2 and my nephew is only 4 months old, so I am holding on to them. My husband didnt understand what all the fuss was about either when i wanted to spend the night in the car to get the book right away, I didnt, but he and I did spend the night in the car to see “The Passion Of The Christ” and we have also spent the night in the car waiting to get Dave Matthews Band Tickets. I think to each his own, but I cant wait to share the HP experiance with my niece and nephew any my kids.
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legeorge:
No. I will not watch these movies or read the books. One movie or book, maybe, but not book after book, movie after movie, especially a series that seems to get darker and darker. No thanks. They can keep it. I don’t want my kids getting sucked into such things.

I have to agree. I would also like to add a small observation.
We had free HBO for a weekend. And although I would never normally watch anything on that channel, I saw a documentary about the children who had been held hostage in Russia. One boy, recounting his ordeal, said that he kept wishing Harry Potter would come and use his invisible cloak. Now, maybe that was just a normal response for a child. But in a life and death situation, I would like my children’s first response to be praying and asking their Guardian Angel for protection…not some fictional boy wizard.

The things you read become a part of who you are. As do the songs you listen to and the movies/tv you watch. There are many, many books and movies from my youth I wish that I could erase from memory. Besides, I think that the HP craze is a little disturbing. Watching kids grab onto a newly published book, hugging and kissing it, rocking back and forth in ecstacy, like a girl I saw on the news when she received her long-awaited copy of a new HP novel, well, that’s just disturbing. Anything other than God that puts such a powerful hold on someone, I like to steer clear of. I got sucked into a few series I should not have when I was young, and experienced my fair share of brushes with the occult. I’d like my kids to go another direction.
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TarAshly:
It’s just a book.
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Except it’s not. It is book after book, movie after movie. I’m sure that “it’s just a book” is just what my high school boyfriend’s parents thought about some of the stuff he was reading too. It really is a shame how he got hooked on things that led him to studying to be a warlock. He was a Catholic too, and I even attended his confirmation. It is through breaking up with him that I had my first **real ** encounter with the demonic. And he started by reading a Time Life series on mystical things. Pretty harmless, huh? Will every kid who gets into Harry Potter or similar things turn to the dark side? Of course not. Can such books/movies take an especially impressionable child and turn their attention to things that will lead them down the wrong road? Absolutely. I’ve seen it happen. It happened to me. I won’t let it happen to my kids if I can help it.
I have read all of them and I am saving them for my Neice and nephew and my children. I dont have any yet and my niece isnt even 2 and my nephew is only 4 months old, so I am holding on to them.
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I hope you reconsider that.
I think to each his own, but I cant wait to share the HP experiance with my niece and nephew any my kids.
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That’s your perogative, but I can’t wait to share the Catholic experience with my children. There are too many things to do with my kids. We don’t have time for a Harry Potter fixation. We are too busy being focused on our family and God.
 
Lori,

Just because I enjoy a book series and a movie series does not mean that i dont focus on my family and God, I take my neice and nephew to church whenever I have them and my husband and I go to Mass regularly, I am a Legionary and he is a Knight, our world revolves around the Church. I just happen to enjoy some literature too, and its an experience that I hope that my children and Neice and Nephew will enjoy as much as church. Its a series of well written books and movies. I dont have children yet, so i spoil my brother in laws son and my sisters daughter and buying books and DVD’s they will enjoy later in life is as much a part of that as endulging them with toys and clothes. It’s all in good fun. Im sorry for your loss with your boyfriend, but his story is rare im sure and as long as someone has a strong faith base, books shouldnt sway them otherwise.
 
After posting early on in this thread, I’ve been following it off and on.

Why don’t we just say that those who feel that the HP books/movies will have a bad effect on their faith, stay away from them?

And, as I mentioned in my ealier post, I personally feel the books/movies are written for a certain age child. But if a parent feels their child is not up to watching or reading without having something evil “rub off on them”, then definitely, it’s your perogative to tell the child ‘no’ to seeing/reading HP.

As for those of us who feel we are grounded in our faith, and who have had that tested (I know I have, and not by a series of fictional books) and do not fall away from God in the least little bit, let us enjoy our Harry Potter books and movies without telling us we are doomed. No one can judge the strength of another’s faith. No one but God.
 
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Baptista:
After posting early on in this thread, I’ve been following it off and on.

Why don’t we just say that those who feel that the HP books/movies will have a bad effect on their faith, stay away from them?
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Oh my-at first thouhgt you were refering to H P Lovecraft (Chutula anyone?) Now that would really open a can of worms.http://forums.catholic-questions.org/images/icons/icon7.gif

Oh well-have to run-a rather large, majestic lion needs my help…
 
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TarAshly:
Lori,

Just because I enjoy a book series and a movie series does not mean that i dont focus on my family and God, I take my neice and nephew to church whenever I have them and my husband and I go to Mass regularly, I am a Legionary and he is a Knight, our world revolves around the Church. I just happen to enjoy some literature too, and its an experience that I hope that my children and Neice and Nephew will enjoy as much as church. Its a series of well written books and movies. I dont have children yet, so i spoil my brother in laws son and my sisters daughter and buying books and DVD’s they will enjoy later in life is as much a part of that as endulging them with toys and clothes. It’s all in good fun. Im sorry for your loss with your boyfriend, but his story is rare im sure and as long as someone has a strong faith base, books shouldnt sway them otherwise.
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Dont let her put you on the defensive-the books are great and have opened the doors of reading to millions of children.
 
You are all free to do whatever you like. But I am worried by so many nonchalant attitudes. Whether you want to believe it or not, some people get sucked into some very dark places by this genre of fiction. And with so many other choices out there, I strongly suggest being cautious. You never know how this type of thing is going to seep into a person. You just may be opening the door to something you will regret. And just because I choose to focus my family in another direction does not mean that I am a fanatic or that I don’t appreciate literature. I do. I just don’t feel like playing Russian roulette with my children’s souls. I don’t let them play violent video games, listen to inappropriate music, or dress immodestly either. I am trying to shield them the best I can *because I know what is out there. * More than likely, this will not affect your children. I pray that is true. But, while most people are probably fine with such books, there are some who will fall prey to evil as a result, and I’d rather not take that chance.

I judge noone’s faith. I just don’t think most people have the experiences to make them cautious about such things. If you see a group of people walking down a street toward an uncovered manhole, you warn them. Will they all fall into the hole? No. But someone might, and I would be remiss if I did not warn them that it was there.
 
Oh dont worry im not. I have heard a lot worse challenges to my faith. Just about time for me to go to class and since I10 is so messed up I believe I will be taking my trusty old thunderbolt to avoid the traffic! Hopefully the snowqueen is not directing traffic and those pesky hobbits have gotten schmeed out of the manhole. Estesbob you are cracking me up!
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estesbob:
Dont let her put you on the defensive-the books are great and have opened the doors of reading to millions of children.
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Kay Cee:
All the way home my older daughter will yack about what’s different in the book and how the movie should have been. For over an hour, I’ll hear what was left out and what was added.
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I must admit… I’m guilty of doing the exact same thing that your daughter does. With each movie, they have to cut more and more stuff out to keep it under 18 hours, so I understand the need to cut and trim stuff down.

One thing I will say in favor of the director’s poetic license was the way he extended the dragon fight scene to make it more exciting. I thought that was a great scene and did better than the book.

For those who want to criticize the Harry Potter franchise for promoting witchcraft, I say they’re more than welcome, but as for me, I have no intention of ever practicing witchcraft and will forever believe that GOD ALMIGHTY is the only real truth and that Jesus is our only Messiah and Savior.
 
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estesbob:
Dont let her put you on the defensive-the books are great and have opened the doors of reading to millions of children.
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Kids heartily read Playboy too, when they get a copy. 🙂 Just kidding, just kidding!
 
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legeorge:
I judge noone’s faith. I just don’t think most people have the experiences to make them cautious about such things. If you see a group of people walking down a street toward an uncovered manhole, you warn them. Will they all fall into the hole? No. But someone might, and I would be remiss if I did not warn them that it was there.
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So when you told me that I was puting entertainment ahead of my eternal soul that was not questioning my faith???

I would like to persue this futher but an ENT is knocking on my window offering me something to drink-i could be in the NBA by tomorrow…
 
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