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Debate on Harry Potter: Travis Prinzi vs. Richard Dawkins

October 29th, 2008 — , Defense Against the Harry Haters, Fairy Tales, G.K. Chesterton, Harry Potter and Imagination, Hogwarts School of Literature, Magic in Literature, scientific fatalism from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head

OK, so that’s not really happening. But my book, Harry Potter & Imagination: The Way Between Two Worlds, opens with a chapter on the importance of mythological and fairy-tale thinking as opposed to what G.K. Chesterton called “scientific fatalism.” Richard Dawkins has decided to write the opposite book, positing the possibility that fairy tales are potentially [...]

Points to Ponder Re: “The Haunter of the Dark”

October 27th, 2008 — , Defense Against the Harry Haters, Gryffindor Common Room, H.P. Lovecraft from ahsturgis @ The Hog's Head

The story of “The Haunter of the Dark” begins with a teenage Robert Bloch, who went on in adulthood to win the Hugo, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy Awards and become best known for his novel Psycho.
As Bloch explains in “Time-Traveling with H.P. Lovecraft”:
In 1935 I’d written a story, “The Shambler from the Stars,” [...]

Why Was Harry Potter Challenged?

October 4th, 2008 — , Defense Against the Harry Haters, Harry Potter banned, banned books week from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head

Well, it’s been a really exciting Banned Books Week, as I’ve managed to get up just one post. I got completely buried in work this week, missed both of my classes as well as both of the assignments for those classes.
As Banned Books Week wraps up, I’ll toss out another interesting conversation for discussion: Why has [...]

Banned Books Week

September 27th, 2008 — , Beyond the Potterverse, Defense Against the Harry Haters, banned books week from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head

Thanks to everyone who has been participating in the great discussions of Sorcerer’s Stone Week! I’m hoping to catch up with them and join them soon. We’re transitioning now into Banned Books Week, which begins today. I won’t be doing a “Day 1,” “Day 2,” etc. like with this past week. But be sure to [...]

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Casting Out the Harry Potter Demons

May 3rd, 2008 — , Defense Against the Harry Haters, Harry Haters, fundamentalism from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head

by Travis
We’ve had a good amount of discussion here about the term “fundamentalism” as it applies to Christian anti-Potter crowd. There’s been some disagreement about what the term means. This post might help clarify what I mean when I use the term. Some time ago, I began writing some satire of [...]

Scripture Quotations and Struggling with Faith

October 19th, 2007 — Defense Against the Harry Haters, Hogwarts School of Theology from Behold a Phoenix @ Sword of Gryffindor :: Hog's Head PubCast - A Harry Potter Blog!

by Johnny
I received an early morning surprise yesterday as I checked this site and clicked on the link to MTV News where J.K. Rowling opened up about the Christian content in the Harry Potter novels. I do have to say that it was inevitable. JKR told Evan Solomon in July 2000, “[T]here is so much [...]

Hog’s Head PubCast #38: Rowling Discusses Christian Content of Harry Potter!

October 17th, 2007 — Defense Against the Harry Haters, Hogwarts School of Theology, Podcasts from Travis Prinzi @ Sword of Gryffindor :: Hog's Head PubCast - A Harry Potter Blog!

Rowling discusses the specific Christian content of the Harry Potter series.
We will return to Lovecraft studies with the next podcast. If you’re still having trouble getting into Lovecraft, try listening to the audio version of The Shadow Over Innsmouth, being released in 5 parts by the Atlanta Radio Theater Company (parts 1&2 presently [...]

Rowling Discusses Christian Content of Harry Potter!

October 17th, 2007 — Defense Against the Harry Haters, Hogwarts School of Theology from Travis Prinzi @ Sword of Gryffindor :: Hog's Head PubCast - A Harry Potter Blog!

Well, it’s finally happening: Rowling is specifically discussing the Christian content of the Harry Potter series.
John Granger has got discussion going at HogPro.
I think we’ll interrupt some of the Lovecraft discussion for a few posts on this, given that it’s pretty big news and pertains to what we’ve been discussing here for over two years! [...]

Responding to Berit Kjos

September 29th, 2007 — Defense Against the Harry Haters from Behold a Phoenix @ Sword of Gryffindor :: Hog's Head PubCast

by Johnny
Berit Kjos, one of the most staunch opponents of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, reveals her gross misunderstanding of Deathly Hallows in her review, “Harry’s Last Battle & Rowling’s Beliefs“. Concentrating on the Vancouver Sun quotation where JKR told Max Wyman that if she discussed her faith then the “intelligent reader, whether 10 or [...]

Gnostic Worldview in Harry Potter?

September 13th, 2007 — Defense Against the Harry Haters from Behold a Phoenix @ Sword of Gryffindor :: Hog's Head PubCast

by Johnny
I want to briefly respond to the assertion held by “culture warriors” like Michael D. O’Brien, Tom Snyder, and Ted Baehr that there are Gnostic elements in Harry Potter. The latter two, in “Don’t Be Fooled”, mentions “Gnosticism” in passing as one of the ingredients along with “modern humanism” and “pagan/occult ideas about the [...]

Harry’s Christian Cred

September 11th, 2007 — Defense Against the Harry Haters, Themes from Dave the Longwinded @ Sword of Gryffindor :: Hog's Head PubCast

by Dave
Harry’s credibility as a Christian symbol/figure fixed well and good within the Christian tradition marks most of the public discussion of HP in the wake of Deathly Hallows. I’m not nearly as well versed in theology and Christian thinking as Travis or Johnny, but I do teach a lot of Rhetoric/Composition for a [...]

Hog’s Head PubCast #35: A Defense Class

September 10th, 2007 — Defense Against the Harry Haters, Podcasts from Travis Prinzi @ Sword of Gryffindor :: Hog's Head PubCast

Response to Drs Synder and Baehr about Deathly Hallows, in which the sarcasm is plentiful and the responses are right off the top of my head with zero preparation.
You can subscribe for free through iTunes, and you can say nice stuff about the pubcast there.
No pubcast next week; it’s moving weekend for us!
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“Don’t Be [...]

No God in Deathly Hallows?

September 6th, 2007 — Defense Against the Harry Haters from Behold a Phoenix @ Sword of Gryffindor :: Hog's Head PubCast

by Johnny
Who would have thought that Michael D. O’Brien and Lev Grossman would have something in common, particularly since both, while holding diametrically opposing worldviews, are so eager to say that there is no God in Harry Potter. And they proclaim this in the midst of an overwhelming positive response to the Christian themes in [...]

Strange Bedfellows

August 21st, 2007 — Defense Against the Harry Haters from Travis Prinzi @ Sword of Gryffindor :: Hog's Head PubCast

Atheists and Fundamentalists, that is. Or in this case, fundamentalist-type Catholics. Michael O’Brien is out with another anti-Potter essay which terribly misunderstands the series. I have no time to respond to this now (Behold a Phoenix, you want to take a shot at this?), but I did have to chuckle a bit when LifeSite actually [...]

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