The Passion of Voldemort

[sigma7]

Why Harry Potter is evil

...The antagonist in the Harry Potter books is a man called Tom (parody of the Trinity, more about that in the next paragraph) Marvolo (marvels miracles) Riddle (referring to the Divine mystery), a man who is three as one, in the spiritual shape of an old man (Voldemort ¨Cmeaning flight of death, a direct reference to the plagues over Egypt), in the body of the young man who lives in the diary (Bible), and as the spirit that guides (as in the first book when he fights the witches for a stone the Sorcerer's Stone that grants immortality and is in defiance of the punishment for the fall).

This Tom Riddle is clearly the God of Christian tradition as other Christian critics of Mrs. Rowling's books have pointed out. When Potter first sees Tom Riddle the Son, Tom is described as strangely blurred around the edges, suggesting a halo (p. 330)....

I'll leave you to mock/ridicule/poke holes in her little manifesto. It's just too easy.

The downside to the Internet is it lets people's insanity bleed out into the world, whereas before it perhaps might've scabbed up in their tiny little imaginations. On the Internet, no one can hear you sigh with disappointment.

Edit: Utterly unrelated but still wond'rous: Ratherisms, limited to the 2000 & 2004 elections. Yes, I'll miss 'im.

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[robing.livejournal.com]

It's not just internet kooks who spout ideas like this. On my last trip to the downtown library, I noticed a book on the "new" shelf along very similar lines. I can't recall the title, but it was basically a parent's guide to all the satanic influences in modern culture. Old standbys like wicca and D&D were there, as well as Harry Potter and Pokemon. I'm still puzzling over what's satanic about Pokemon.