Well, there are Catholics like that, just as there are Muslims like Bin Laden. Osama probabaly doesn't like Harry Potter (or Barack Obama, for that matter).

But young Potter is in favour in the Vatican these days.

Here's what L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, had to say in an enthusiastic review of the latest Harry Potter film: "the demarcation line between those who do good and those who do evil seems very clear, and the spectator or reader readily identifies with the former. In this most recent film in particular the distinction is even clearer. It conveys to viewers that it is right to do good and makes them realize that this sometimes demands both great effort and sacrifice."

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I'm not sure that letters to American papers from England are necessarily too helpful. I mean, this is the country where the leader of the Conservative opposition speaks passionately of his love of a National Health Service which actually is an example of "socialism" in practice.

But if you'd like to work up that post of mine into a letter from you to American papers, Amos, be my guest. I think it'd come better from a native.