Do you think the harry potter books and movies are making people like magic more in a bad way?

[Frank Goad]

Do you think the harry potter books and movies are making people like magic more in a bad way?When I mean a bad way.I mean not just for fun like the stuff you see a stage magician doing.

 

[The Hammer]

Do you think the harry potter books and movies are making people like magic more in a bad way?When I mean a bad way.I mean not just for fun like the stuff you see a stage magician doing.

You mean "bad" like 'real' witchcraft, divination, and paganism I am assuming? Why is that bad?

Edit: To answer your question. No, I don't think so. And even if it is, I don't see that as a bad thing.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

No more or less than stories of King Arthur and Merlin for a huge chunk of Western people for about a 1000 years who all grew up before Harry Potter. I had Sword in the Stone as a kid, loved it, watched it a bunch of times, never did it make me think people can actually turn into dragons and animate objects and other things the cartoon Merlin did.

 

[Spirit of Light]

Do you think the harry potter books and movies are making people like magic more in a bad way?When I mean a bad way.I mean not just for fun like the stuff you see a stage magician doing.

The harry potter magic is closer to true magic then the stage magic that is 99% fake magic in my view But of course, harry potter is only an imagination too.

 

[Rival]

No, and as Shadow Wolf said, magic in some form has always been part of any culture; there have always been magic men or witches.

 

[Nakosis]

Do you think the harry potter books and movies are making people like magic more in a bad way?When I mean a bad way.I mean not just for fun like the stuff you see a stage magician doing.

You mean like thinking magic is real? If so, then I suppose it is no worse than religion.

 

[Kangaroo Feathers]

Do you think the harry potter books and movies are making people like magic more in a bad way?When I mean a bad way.I mean not just for fun like the stuff you see a stage magician doing.

nah.

 

[ADigitalArtist]

As far as fantasy lit goes, Harry Potter is closer to biblical presentation than most. It's a messianic hero tale, with the prophecied savior coming from humble means, dying to fulfill a prophecy, resurrecting to defeat the evil and deliver the wizarding world. It's about as weakly linked to actual paganism as such a story can be.