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: Does Harry Potter promote witchcraft?
: bj_predator_0919 August 01, 2007, 09:00:47 AM
ayon sa site na avoidharrypotter.com eh reading harry potter promotes witchcraft in children... anong say nyo dito?
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: carlocarr August 01, 2007, 10:35:16 AM
mga close minded ang mga tao dun.. hehehehehe
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: bulba August 01, 2007, 11:46:47 AM
i think harry potter encourge and help some kids to read books!

 ;D ;D ;D
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: djlove August 01, 2007, 11:50:25 AM
sorry bulba but it is not harry potter teach the kids to read witchcraft not to read only books and some articles harry potter community is existed in their lives
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: yamatoyukihiro August 01, 2007, 11:56:18 AM
tingin ko naman ok nga ung harry potter para magbasa ng books mga bata at mag-imagine. Baka nagwiwitch craft witch craftan lang na laro ung mga bata. Ngaun kung may naging witch nga ng dahil dun good luck na lang sa kanya at sa paghahanap nya ng dementor. hehehe peace sa mga witch.
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: Kal-El August 01, 2007, 12:35:56 PM
sorry bulba but it is not harry potter teach the kids to read witchcraft not to read only books and some articles harry potter community is existed in their lives

I am really sorry djlove. I mean no disrespect. I have an idea on what you are trying to say. But I can barely understand it. Care to expound or at least rephrase? Sharing your thoughts is essential in this forum and it will be better if people can truly understand what you are trying to say.

ayon sa site na avoidharrypotter.com eh reading harry potter promotes witchcraft in children... anong say nyo dito?

Personally, I don't think it outright promotes witchcraft among children. For me, children sees it as a different from of fairy tale. It is merely entertaining to them. However, I do not deny the fact that it may subconsciously affect people who are weak to this kind of idea. Undoubtedly, Harry Potter opens up the world of witchcraft to a lot of people, and surely there will be extremists, young and old alike, that will be curious and will experiement on witchcraft. However, the number of people that will do such a thing will be insignificant (i hope). At the end of the day, most kids will only see this as a fairy tale; a fantasy story. No more, no less.

Anything and everything in this world, promoted or not, can influence us. It will always come down on our foundation as a person: education and upbringing. On children, although Harry Potter means no harm and does not promote witchcraft, it is still the parents' duty to make sure that thier children understand what they are reading. toast::
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: MiKeDaCuTe August 01, 2007, 12:50:32 PM
ay sus.. pati ba naman yun? eh yung transformer promotes violence? ipagbawal na rin dapat yun... daming anime puro violence ang pinapakita eh, same thing lang ng harry potter... fantasy story lang naman yang mga yan... kalimitan kc sa mga bata mahilig sa mga fantasy story.... nakukuha mo yung attention nila sa mga fantasy story, so sa pamamagitan nun e madali mo silang matuturuan ng magandang asal and entertainment na rin...
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: Kal-El August 01, 2007, 12:55:27 PM
ay sus.. pati ba naman yun? eh yung transformer promotes violence? ipagbawal na rin dapat yun... daming anime puro violence ang pinapakita eh, same thing lang ng harry potter... fantasy story lang naman yang mga yan... kalimitan kc sa mga bata mahilig sa mga fantasy story.... nakukuha mo yung attention nila sa mga fantasy story, so sa pamamagitan nun e madali mo silang matuturuan ng magandang asal and entertainment na rin...

not to mention, madaling pagkakitaan.. laffman:: bnana b*; bnana laffman::
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: hippo August 01, 2007, 01:00:43 PM
Harry Potter is fictional. Therefore, you should treat it like fiction. It's just a drawn-up story so that people like us will have something to spend our time with.
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: Master Of Disaster (m.d) August 01, 2007, 05:12:43 PM
ayon sa site na avoidharrypotter.com eh reading harry potter promotes witchcraft in children... anong say nyo dito?


that is the view of a very pessimistic person na walang magawa kundi mag hanap ng mali sa lahat ng tama!!! it promotes reading to children and improve their literary skills!! PERIOD!!!
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: boytoge August 01, 2007, 07:07:25 PM
at ano masama sa withcraft, wiccan is a religion, you should respect other peoples religions, the thought of wiccans serving the devil is baseless and is only a popular thought among people that do not know anything about wiccans or withcraft in particular.
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: TobleRONe August 01, 2007, 07:45:18 PM
I can't see anything wrong with HP. In my opinion it encourages children to use their imagination. And through imagination kids can be more creative and inventive.
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: metal1369 August 01, 2007, 08:00:15 PM
dmo na magagamit un imagination part ksi naging movie na un harry potter all the characters and locations have been given specific characteristics.
sana hinayaan munang ma release lahat nun books bago ginawa un movie.
mga after 10 years para ng mature na ang mga readers ng harry potter at ma appreciate nila un sariling view ni rowling kay harry potter sa movie kahit taliwas un sa kanilang naimagine nun bata pa sila.
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: TobleRONe August 01, 2007, 08:05:02 PM
dmo na magagamit un imagination part ksi naging movie na un harry potter all the characters and locations have been given specific characteristics.
sana hinayaan munang ma release lahat nun books bago ginawa un movie.
mga after 10 years para ng mature na ang mga readers ng harry potter at ma appreciate nila un sariling view ni rowling kay harry potter sa movie kahit taliwas un sa kanilang naimagine nun bata pa sila.

sa case ko kasi, binasa ko muna yung book, bago ko pinanood yung movie, so dissapointed nga ako sa movie kasi di umabot sa expectations ko yung sa nabasa ko.

and besides di pa nagagawan ng movie yung 6 and 7, kids can still use their imagination, may mga places, situations/events na pwede pa rin nila gamitin kanila imagination. and kahit naipalabas na yung movie na 1-5 may mga scene or part sa book na importante na wala sa movie or iniba nila sa movie
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: Ticonderoga August 02, 2007, 02:31:56 AM
in my own opinion i think parang ganon na nga.
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: juicyjewel August 02, 2007, 04:44:13 AM
ayon sa site na avoidharrypotter.com eh reading harry potter promotes witchcraft in children... anong say nyo dito?

Do you see kids with cauldrons and flying broom sticks around?  The least you can see are kids dressed as the Harry Potter people armed with twigs and sticks.

The same with the crap they keep on throwing at The Da Vinci Code:

HARRY POTTER IS FICTION.

"Fiction" lang, hindi pa maintindihan kung anong ibig sabihin.
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: jujjay August 02, 2007, 05:02:04 AM
there's a reason why the HP books are under the fiction section at the bookstore...
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: Oh-Em-Gee August 02, 2007, 10:06:55 PM

Do you see kids with cauldrons and flying broom sticks around?  The least you can see are kids dressed as the Harry Potter people armed with twigs and sticks.

The same with the crap they keep on throwing at The Da Vinci Code:

HARRY POTTER IS FICTION.

"Fiction" lang, hindi pa maintindihan kung anong ibig sabihin.
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i agree with him


"FICTION" close minded people should first consult to thier beloved and trusted dictionaries. Ganyan din ang nngyari sa "Da Vinci Code".. maraming moralista ang nagreact..

eh bakit hindi nila sitahin yung mga "Fairy tales" nila? i mean Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Cinderella.. you can name more... hindi ba't may mga "Witches" and "Fairies" din sila with matching magic powers kuno.. and pambata pa yang mga yan ha?? haays...
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: juicyjewel August 03, 2007, 04:40:47 AM
^I'm a GIRL po.
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: Kal-El August 03, 2007, 10:37:25 AM
^I'm a GIRL po.

not to mention...a hot one too!   bnana b*; bnana
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: yamatoyukihiro August 03, 2007, 12:14:00 PM
naalala ko tuloy noon nung may narinig ako na may nagsabi na may sa demonyo daw ang pokemon. geez. But that's totally out of the topic...  smoking::
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: • Count Alucard of South • August 03, 2007, 12:47:35 PM
ay sus.. pati ba naman yun? eh yung transformer promotes violence? ipagbawal na rin dapat yun... daming anime puro violence ang pinapakita eh, same thing lang ng harry potter... fantasy story lang naman yang mga yan... kalimitan kc sa mga bata mahilig sa mga fantasy story.... nakukuha mo yung attention nila sa mga fantasy story, so sa pamamagitan nun e madali mo silang matuturuan ng magandang asal and entertainment na rin...

transformers the movie promotes robotics (robot-robotan) nakakabuti po yun sa mga bata at hindi ito para sa matatanda kase ang dudumi ng pag-iisip hehehehe  laffman:: laffman:: laffman::

sino dito ang mahilig manood nuon ng flying house at superbook ? diba, nagpopromote rin yun ng paglabas ng bahay or pagpunta sa ibang lugar na hindi nagpapaalam sa mga magulang ? walang nagreklamo kase nga galing sa isang catholic industry... hahahahaha  laffman::  laffman::  laffman::
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: シビト August 06, 2007, 07:54:12 AM
i think HP doesn't promote witchcraft but promotes and stimulates the reader's imagination...
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: TobleRONe August 11, 2007, 12:08:52 PM
Eto pala take ni Pope Benedict XVI tungkol dyan sa HP:

On March 7, 2003, Ratzinger wrote a letter to congratulate German writer Gabriele Kuby on her book, Harry Potter; Gut oder böse? ("Harry Potter; Good or evil?", ISBN 3-928929-43-7), about the literary phenomenon of Harry Potter, a popular series of books about a young student of magic. Kuby's book meant to prove that the Harry Potter books would "corrupt" the religious spirit of young generations and prove false the rumours that Pope John Paul II liked the series.

Cardinal Ratzinger wrote that "[it is a] very informed book [...] It is good that you, esteemed and dear Mrs. Kuby, enlighten the people about Harry Potter, because there are subtle seductions, that act unconsciously, deeply distorting Christianity in the soul, before it can properly grow". Kuby later asked permission to make this flattering judgement public, which was granted.
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: • Count Alucard of South • August 12, 2007, 01:20:30 AM
naalala ko tuloy noon nung may narinig ako na may nagsabi na may sa demonyo daw ang pokemon. geez. But that's totally out of the topic...  smoking::

kahit nga yung teletubbies show daw ni satanas haahahah hindi ko ma gets pero nakita ko yun sa youtube isearch nyo hehehehe.. sorry po out of the topic na naman, katuwaan lang
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: Van Gogh August 16, 2007, 02:39:19 AM
siguro nga pwedeng sumagi rin sa isip ni JK rowling na ipromote ang withcraft through harry potter, pero nasa tao na yun, atsaka ang main purpose tlga nung libro is to entertain.. ;D


kung sakkaling makaimpluwensiya nman ito sa bata, san to magaaral? :-\
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: hardshaft17 August 16, 2007, 04:43:57 AM
    Nope... if you are asking if there is real intent. Yes... with regards to the book and the movies making wizardry and witchcraft more endearing and popular in a different sort of way, albeit done unconsciously. Popular stuff always influences us consciously or subconsciously... fiction or real. It is up to us to discern which to take seriously and which to discard or dismiss as a trend or fad. Regarding its influence on the youth especially kids, I think most if not all are equip enough with the proper education to read Harry Potter since the books do not come cheap. So anyone who has read it has undergone some form of education to know that it is a work of fiction that is there merely to entertain.                                                                                                                                                      I agree with Toblerone and Ethereal and with the others who think it promotes reading and stimulates the imagination.  I don't agree with Metal1369 since the movies are very much lacking in plot, length, details and emotion to give the public the needed characterization to diminish their imagination. Especially the movies about books 3, 4 and 5, the director opted to be more creative and cinematic instead of sticking to the plot and capture the entirety of the story. Nothing wrong with being artistic really, I just wish they reserve their creativeness and cinematic talents on movies that are not an adaptation from a book or novel like Harry Potter.
    I totally agree with Van Gogh on his point that if the kids do intend to practice wizardry and witchcraft because of Harry Potter... where do they start and learn? Hogwarts? or espiya School of Witchcraft and Wizardry? :P :D ;) toast::
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: dark_machine December 10, 2010, 07:30:19 AM
Not only HP promote wizardry/witchcraft,even online games and any other fairy tales. In other side HP promotes creativity,friendship and proper attitudes like the main character "Harry". Wla akong nakktang masama sa HP, nsa tao nlng talga un kung paano nya ihahandle ang napapanood nya. San nga naman mag-aaral ng Witchcraft ang mga bata? If children get older they will just realize that HP is only fantasy like Santa Claus.

Sab nga nila kung anong mabunga yun ang binabato ng mga tao, hitik sa bunga ang HP sa ngaun, pero bka sa kababato e maubos na bunga nito at maging part nlng ng movie/book history...