harry potter question?

I personally am a huge fan of harry potter books, BUT I also started reading them at the age of 14 when I knew what was real and fake-good and bad.

I dont really think harry potter has much to do with the urban violence in schools but it is causing confusion in young minds as to what is real, and believable. Those books are written very well and include actual historical name such as "Nicolas Flammel" who was part of the "knights of templar" (supposedly)

anyway, I think there should be an age limit (restriction) on reading harry potter books

Well, the whole gay thing wasn't even picked up by the majority of people. There was no sex....gay or straight. The wands shooting was not violent and mostly shot the wands out of the other kids hands or knocked them down. I think saying that Harry Potter is evil (especially compared to most movies out there) is just silly. It is fantasy...nothing else. To suggest that it has influnced violence is silly as well. No one in the right mind would compare playing with a stick to shooting a gun and what not. What influences violence is ignorance, drugs, etc. Not childrens books.

I am not a fan of the book series, however I believe that the character your are asking about is/was Dumbledort(Sp?) As far as "shooting wands" having any effect on urban violence, urban violence has been around much longer than the book series.

I read the first book when I was 14yrs. of age, but I didn't like it...at that time my favorite book was Les Miserables...yes, someone at the age of 14 reading a book not geared toward children, a novel idea I know.(Pardon the pun.)

Harry Potter has nothing to do with violence...that being said, yes Dumbledore was gay, but there were no man on man sex scenes in the books.

Dumbledore seriously was gay. JK Rowling had that in mind the whole time she was writing the series. The seventh book touches on that just a little bit, but it is never overwhelmingly stated. No other characters are gay, despite people joking around about Harry and Ron or any other characters.

Hellz no. No gay sex, no gay characters, nothing of the sort in that series. I'm no fan freak about Harry Potter but I know enough about it and about the controversy to know that all this b.s. started w/ Florida and their stupid law that all students must have permission to from their parents to read the books.

Kids shooting their wands at each other is just kids being kids. They like fantasy, they like magic, and there is a huge gap between guns and wands.

Yes, there was a gay character in the novels, though it was never explicitly stated in the text, and a young child reading the books would not need to deal with the issue to learn from them, though I wouldn't give the later books to a young child because of how heavy and serious they become.

No, the evil in the Harry Potter series definitely has not influenced urban violence. Though there is evil in the Harry Potter books, the books are about fighting evil and bringing about harmony. They are about how we need to accept and respect each other regardless of our differences and about how evil can be overcome by good. They are inspiring to kids and are teaching them crucial lessons about being good human beings.

Um no dude i read them all no gay charactor no man sex wands being a metaphore for gun violence.... thats kinda pushing it. I would say there are alot more violent movies taht kids watch everyday that would lead to a greater influence on behavior in schools. Sorry this theory is pretty flawed

First of all, about that gay character gossip... I think it's just the 'haters' kinda gossip...

And about the movie that teaches violence, you should read the book, man... It's a fine piece of literature... And if kids took the wrong message about it, well I say "Parent please do what you were suppose to do"...

Look at Tom & Jerry or Bugs Bunny Cartoon Classics for Pete's sake.. What's that if not violence?

But the fact is, terrorist does not get their inspiration from Willey Coyote setting a ton of TNT to blew up Road Runner, and people got into fights is not coz of Tom showing the how to smack Jerry with a sledgehammer...

That's why the word "Parental Guidance" are embed in the sub-opening title of every movie...

Hope this will give you opening insights...

Don't know about the Gay Wizards, but as far as school violence, it was much more common and much worse "before" the books came out, for whatever that's worth.

i do not tihnk that this could influence violence in schools at all. dumbledore is gay. but you dont realize this in the book, only j.k. rowling (the auther) says after the whole series was written and there is no sex at all.... gay or straight, only some making out