The 'denouncing' of the Harry Potter novels cited above is ludicrous.

When I shop at the food store the tabloids by the checkout carry stories of satanism and demonic posession, alien abduction, bigfoot, Elvis sighting, ghosts and vampires, etc. That is where this sort of horse manure belongs.

Personally I wish that I could still believe in magic. The only evil incarnate lies in the ignorant who would destroy childhood fantasy to control their flocks and fill their coffers.