Most Christians see Harry Potter as just another evil fantasy book, but really they are missing the point. I often wonder if they have actually read the series in it's entirety, or even one book at all, because if they had read it, they would see that Harry Potter is more than three best friends going to a school of wizardry, it's an entire series showing that love is important. Basically, J.K Rowling has used entertainment and pure genius to show her readers the importance of love and acceptance. Let's start from the beginning, shall we.
Book 1-Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone:
This is where it all began, Harry's move to Hogwarts. This book isn't just the start to a series, it's the start to a legend. Harry is now accepted to Hogwarts and makes some friends. He learns that his parents were killed by Voldemort. Hagrid stands up for him and he gets two best friends. Harry learns that love is needed and VERY important, and that your desired are not always helpful, it's what you don't want is what you need.
Book 2-Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets-
This is the book where we learn much of Tom Riddle. We learn that he helped get our favorite game keeper expelled and that he is the master of the King of the Serpents, the Basilisk. Harry learns that Lockheart's a fake and that his fake love gets him nowhere when it comes to magic. Harry's love for his friends helps him to continue on, and by the end it is love that saves him: his love for his headmaster.
Book 3-Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban-
In the beginning Harry's visit to the Weasley's saves him from a terrible summer, but by the end of the year he has a father figure: Sirius Black. Harry also experiences love from teachers such as Lupin, a teacher that teaches him a spell to save his life. This being the last book Voldemort isn't centered around Harry makes the love stronger.
Book 4-Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire-
This is the TriWizard Tournament, a competition to bring us closer to other wizards. Harry learns how much the love of his friends means to him when his best friend, Ron, abandons him, or so he thinks. Even though Ron was angry, he still loved Harry enough to help him through tasks indirectly. Harry also learns his love of Ron when Ron is taken from him in the second task. By the end of the last task, Cedric Diggory is dead and the love the school felt for him is show.
Book 5-Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix-
Harry Potter takes a turn when Harry realizes how important Sirius is to him. His love for Sirius gets his godfather killed, showing the love has no limits and neither does death. We learn through a huge battle in the ministry that Voldemort cannot love and cannot stand the love inside a person.
Book 6-Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince-
Harry Potter is taken to new limits when he comes upon a book with new spells in it. Harry learns that he is full of love-for Ginny. Harry also learns of horcruxes and how Voldemort's time in an orphanage ruined him and his ability to love. Harry loses his headmaster, a dear friend, to the man he hates more than anything: Severus Snape. Love takes courage and courage takes love: to have one is to have both.
Book 7-Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows-
Love and relationships are tested when Harry, Ron, and Hermione head our on a wild goose chase. Harry learns that Ron's love for him-and Hermione-is limitless. As the book goes on Harry learns that his least favorite teacher was the one that loved him most, teaching Harry that there is love in everyone, everyone but Voldemort. By the end Harry dies for love, and lives for it. His love for his friends, his "family", and his school keeps him moving to kill the man who cannot love: a man who is not a man at all, but a piece of 7 different parts of a torn up soul. Harry learns to pity those without love. As my sister, Shannon, says "Without love, you're a naked little fetus under a table."
As on can see, Christians have it wrong, Harry Potter isn't just a book for devil worshiping teens with no lives, it's a book full of love and laughter for all. Though Harry and his friends attend and magical school, kill magical creatures, and use magic wands, their world is some much more, it's a world filled with a lesson about the magic of love: a magic that can turn just a boy into The Boy Who Lived.
