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Why Harry Potter is dangerous for our children?By Caryl Matrisciana For at least four alarming reasons we should be outraged about the Harry Potter phenomenon.
The popularization of witchcraft especially during the last few years can be directly attributed to the aggressive marketing of Harry Potter. It is mainstreaming the religion of witchcraft which, despite arguments to the contrary, is a REAL religion, with dangerous consequences and is recruiting our children. In 1986 a Federal Court of Appeals decision (Dettmer v. Landon) had effectively declared “The Church of Wicca” to be a constitutionally recognized “religion”, with the same legal rights and standing as other religions (1). Witchcraft is legal and has tax exempt status. Wiccan chaplains are in the military and despite the so called separation of Church and State, Wicca is exploiting its public acceptance throughout our educational system. Children as young as six years old are being read Harry Potter books aloud by their teaches in classrooms across America while Bible reading, the teaching of Christianity and the posting of the Ten Commandments is outlawed. Parents didn’t complain when their tax dollars were used to bus hundreds of children to Harry Potter matinees in movie theatres around the nation yet parents protest the Christian celebration of Christmas and Easter in (government) schools. These occasions must now be given the pagan names preferred by nature worshipers – Spring and Winter Holidays . Halloween, also known as the nature Harvest Festival, is the major New Year holiday of Witches and Pagans and blatantly permitted as a party time opportunity (separating its religious roots) in schools everywhere. Yet, I’m confident school buses could not be used to take children to Mel Gibson’s Passion of The Christ at the time Christian’s celebrate their Messiah’s zenith celebration, The Resurrection. Wicca, encouraged through schools and fanned by the entertainment industry who are deliberately targeting our children, (see my DVD: Gods of Entertainment (2)) is the fastest-growing religion in America among pre-teens and also thrives in higher educational facilities: on college campuses, classrooms and through campus associations aided by such Wiccan promoters as Anthony Paige. Paige, a graduate of SUNY Purchase College started a Wiccan student group on campus and is the successful author of the bestseller, “Rocking the Goddess: Campus Wicca for the Student Practitioner”. His publisher’s promotion states the book’s purpose – “an indispensable guide to an old religion for a new generation, one that will help you feel the mystery, experience the magick, and find the witch within (Branwen’s Cauldon).” (3) Many argue that our children know the difference between the so-called fantasy of Harry Potter’s world and that of “real” witchcraft but facts show otherwise. The author of Harry Potter, Joanne “JK” Rowling, openly admits she gets hundreds of letters from fans asking to attend Hogwart’s, Harry’s occult boarding school of witchcraft and wizardry. Those mentioned in my documentary, Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repacked (www.caryltv.com) admit they want Harry’s power to be able to cast spells and hexes on their parents, teachers or those they love in order to manipulate their devotion. When I was at Kings Cross Train Station in London recently, the stationmaster admitted hundreds come to see the supposed platform which Harry’s fictional school train leaves from. He also mentioned several accidents occurred when children, who mimicked Harry, run through the brick barricade to catch the Hogwart’s Express, the imaginary train Harry takes to enter his magical dimension. The Pagan Federation of England affirm they receive thousands of letters from children after the airing of such TV programs as Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Children ask the location of local Wicca covens to attend and learn the occult techniques promoted in Harry’s books and by other young witches in a plethora of movies and programs that glorify witchcraft and pagan ideology. (See my VHS Death By Entertainment (4)). In my documentary, Supernatural Powers: The Battle Between Good and Evil (www.caryltv.com) I interview those who, as children had been introduced to the occult by reading “fantasy” literature. Over a short time they got hooked, addicted and drawn into dangerous spirituality which changed their disposition and attitudes, making them moody and depressed. From personal experience they warn against child-friendly allurements that attract the vulnerable into emotional distress and an unhealthy interest in the occult. No longer relegated to dark alleys and seen as fearful occultism, “fantasy” literature openly aim at our youth. Piggy backing off Harry Potter, glamorously packaged and enticingly displayed New Age, Pagan and Wiccan books for children cram the shelves of book stores such as Barnes and Noble, USA’s biggest chain bookstore. If, as claimed, reading is the agenda, why not get children to read literature that promotes healthy social values and belief in constructive character development, the furtherance of integrity, truthfulness, honesty and social compassion towards the less advantaged? Harry’s adventures uphold his lying, cheating, stealing and rude, rebellious nature as acceptable even by his adult occult teachers. He not only practices various alchemy magick and spell casting but is driven to improve them so that he can combat the powerful darkness his deeds pull him into. He aspires to more aggressive eastern type meditation, yogic-centering and deeper-concentration techniques to counter the nightmares, hot-sweats, violent anger and addictive pains in his stomach, some of the many symptoms occultists admit they experience as they dabble in the supernatural world of powers and principalities. Any serious witch will openly admit to the yearning for power that benefits for supposed good and healing. Yet they also admit that that power can be abused according to each practitioner’s skill and desire. We learn that Harry misuses his power for evil and selfish ambition, a power which interestingly is linked with the same source as his nemesis, the Evil Lord Voldemort represented as a serpent. All world religions, while admitting the power of the serpent, know it to be fearful, yet Harry is able to talk “serpent” language. There is no doubt children are being seduced into believing the dark-arts are “fun”, benign and a positive power for personal enablement. But responsible parents must be aware that while such practices may be dismissed as “fantasy” they are not to be relegated to the flight of the imagination. The supernatural world is a reality and dabbling with its dark-side is not harmless. Our children are immersed in its cruelty and depravity in a daily battle vying for their spirits and they want the power to tackle it. A chilling aspect of this craving can be read in Misty Bernall’s book about her murdered daughter Cassie, who through her school-day dabbling in witchcraft got drawn into satanism, self mutilation and a desire to kill her parents. Cassie, the 17 year old Columbine High School student who was ultimately killed, along with 13 other Columbine victims has her story compassionately described in her mother’s memoirs and through letters Cassie wrote(5). Much of the ugliness of her spiritual battle - “dark rhymes and lyrics decorated with lurid images of vampires, drugs, and mutilated bodies, including grisly drawings…..” and “Cassie reacted with fits of anger and despair, threats of running away and killing herself…..” are sentiments strewn throughout the pages of Harry Potter. Cassie’s story reveals a significant answer for concerned parents and troubled children trapped by the dangers of today’s growing pagan movement. Cassie’s mother tells how her daughter found faith in a powerful God Who set her free from the darkness that held her in a vice of bondage. In the end, Cassie was martyred for her faith: killed by two fellow classmates who had stormed the school, guns blazing, with murder on their minds, warped by their own deprived, satanic experiences, but hopefully Cassie’s martyrdom is not a waste if children today can be helped by Cassie’s courageous message.(3)
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