http://conservativebooktalk.com/2005/07/05/magic-and-harry-potter/ Where conservatives discuss the books they read. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:57:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://conservativebooktalk.com/2005/07/05/magic-and-harry-potter/#comment-625 Conservative Book Talk » Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:32:19 +0000 http://conservativebooktalk.com/?p=5#comment-625 [...] earlier thoughts by Tim Taylor: Magic and Harry Potter/ Harry Potter Continued/ Realism in Harry Potter/ Conclusion of Harry Potter [...] [...] earlier thoughts by Tim Taylor: Magic and Harry Potter/ Harry Potter Continued/ Realism in Harry Potter/ Conclusion of Harry Potter [...]

]]> http://conservativebooktalk.com/2005/07/05/magic-and-harry-potter/#comment-20 Aaron Silos Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:59:27 +0000 http://conservativebooktalk.com/?p=5#comment-20 I have a feeling I'm going to regret being involved in this conversation. I've only read the Sorcerer's Stone, yet I've talked with enough people and read enough about the series to know it's basic plot and content. There's a key difference that I see between Lewis and Tokien's magic Rowling's. Lewis and Tolkien's good characters use a different kind of magic from the evil ones. Obviously the good characters have access to "black" magic but they're corrupted if they use it. For example, in the Return of the King, Boromir's father uses one of the vision orbs (sorry, it's been awhile since I've read it) and he is weakened by it. The orb is something that even Gandalf will not use. In Rowling's world, the same magic is acceptable to all wizards and witches. It's just simply a matter of how they use it. That might not be a bad thing in itself, except that Rowling's magic seems much more realistic than that used in the worlds of Lewis and Tolkien. Rowling creates her world on a magic that is much closer to the occult than Narnia or Middle Earth magic and she gives all her characters indiscriminate access to most/all of it. That's all I'll say for now. I have a feeling I’m going to regret being involved in this conversation. I’ve only read the Sorcerer’s Stone, yet I’ve talked with enough people and read enough about the series to know it’s basic plot and content. There’s a key difference that I see between Lewis and Tokien’s magic Rowling’s. Lewis and Tolkien’s good characters use a different kind of magic from the evil ones. Obviously the good characters have access to “black” magic but they’re corrupted if they use it. For example, in the Return of the King, Boromir’s father uses one of the vision orbs (sorry, it’s been awhile since I’ve read it) and he is weakened by it. The orb is something that even Gandalf will not use. In Rowling’s world, the same magic is acceptable to all wizards and witches. It’s just simply a matter of how they use it. That might not be a bad thing in itself, except that Rowling’s magic seems much more realistic than that used in the worlds of Lewis and Tolkien. Rowling creates her world on a magic that is much closer to the occult than Narnia or Middle Earth magic and she gives all her characters indiscriminate access to most/all of it. That’s all I’ll say for now.

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