The
publication of the latest volume has occasioned manifestations of
all sorts: masquerade parading of children, magic shows, the creation
of a “fan club” on the internet (the site receives 4,000 to 5,000
visits daily). A film is in the making, a theatrical adaptation is
being prepared, and audiocassettes have been recorded. Harry Potter
has made the front page of Times, of Newsweek, is ranked among the
first in the New York Times’ best seller list. All kinds of commercial
by-products are being fabricated (T-shirts, games, costumes, cards,
gadgets, etc.). At the end of November, France-Culture offered to
its listeners, between half past midnight and 7:00 a.m., a reading
of the entire first volume.
What
is going on? Are we just looking at a commercial success due to marketing
techniques more sophisticated than ever before? Or rather is there
something else behind this absolutely extraordinary success?
The
author
Born
in 1965, Joanne Kathleen Rowling, a Scottish who is raising her little
girl by herself, has received training in the literary field, and
after having worked as a secretary, in particular for Amnesty International
(she described herself as being “the worst secretary there ever was”),
found herself unemployed. It was on the train from London to Manchester,
on a beautiful day in 1996 that she conceived the entire story of
Harry Potter.
Getting
off somewhere near Edinburgh, she quickly made it known that “wishing
to devote herself solely to the writing of literature” she preferred
that “people would speak of her books, rather than of her”. (2)
Today
she is one of the three richest women in England.
Who
is Harry Potter?
Harry
Potter is a young lad, eleven years old (he becomes a year older with
each volume, thus growing along with his young readers), an orphan,
raised by his relatives who mistreat him. His parents died in a car
accident of which he survived, but was left with a scar, a cicatrice
on the forehead, shaped like a bolt of lightning.
He
later learned that his parents, renowned witches, had actually been
assassinated by the wicked magician Voldemort (3)
and that he himself was gifted with magical powers.
Fleeing
the country of the Moldus – those who don’t have magical powers and
who are looked down upon, he goes to receive training in a school
of sorcery, somewhere in Scotland, where he becomes friends with a
boy and girl who accompany him in all his adventures.
The
central theme of tome 4 is an important magical contest organized
by the three most prestigious schools of sorcery in Europe. Each school
will be represented by its best student who must meet very precise
criteria and will be “elected” by a goblet of fire to magical powers.
However, to everyone’s stupefaction, the goblet of fire designated
a fourth “elect” in the person of Harry, who, though he was a student
with exceptional capabilities, did not meet the imposed criteria.
This glorious feat threw the school in a state of turmoil: Treachery?
Was it rigged? Was it a stroke of Voldemort? The powers of darkness?
The
key to the success
What
is the force that drags children, and adults (!), from their television
sofas, from their electronic games, from their Internet, those of
whom it is reputed can no longer read, and makes them literally pounce
upon these books, the latest of which contained 700 pages, to breathlessly
devoir them, after having waited in line for hours outside the bookstore?
| One cannot
be overly warned against these books. They ar ethe means used
by a genuine project of brainwashing, of which its principal victims
are the children. This project is none other than one of the important
plots of the revolution enforced by the New-Age. |
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There
are some that come up with psychoanalytical explanations: The great
myth of the child-god is coming back. Others have sociopolitical explanations:
it’s a representation of the British society in the context of a magical
world, a mirror offered to adolescents who recognize perfectly in
themselves (in a “super-cool” language) the feelings of jealousy,
envy, love-affairs and disputes, etc.) which justifies the study of
this “piece of work” in college courses. Others, of the scholastic
cultural symposiums, speak of the idea of an eventual return to the
great literary tradition of fantastic classical tales.
It
is claimed that we are once again dealing with the age-old battle
between Good and Evil.
All
praise “the wizard who reconciles adolescents through reading”. Unanimously,
the story of Harry Potter is “adored and adopted” (4).
In
any case, it appears that all the art of the author consists in wisely
dosing out a subtle mixture of the material with the supernatural,
the real with the unreal, the ancient with the modern, thus creating
an extremely particular and strange climate which produces an irresistible
seduction, a captivating fascination.
The
story “behind the scenes”
Such
explanations, however accepted they may be, do not in reality clarify
the phenomenon. Rather they conceal it.
And
if by chance someone desires to give a more truthful explanation,
immediately he is accused of incomprehension; the Tagepost, though
a very reliable source, affirmed that “he didn’t understand” (5):
“thoughts of esotericism or hidden interpretations are out of the
question”. Wizards, magic, magicians have always had a part in worldwide
classic tales. And even Rowling says that “love ends up in triumphing
by force”.
Arguments
such as these leave to obscurity (deliberately) an entire aspect of
things, which thus veiled, conceal the dangers and the harmfulness
transmitted and commonly developed throughout the stories of Harry
Potter.
One
cannot be overly warned against these books. They are the means used
by a genuine project of brainwashing, of which its principal victims
are the children. This project is none other than one of the important
plots of the revolution enforced by the New-Age.
It
becomes evident, in fact, if one proceeds to a critical reading of
tome 4, that the spirit which reigns quite naturally, quite simply,
as belonging to it, is a spirit which is entirely anti-Christian.
It is also planted in receptive soil, the most fertile, basically
that of children. Such success, with its stupefying dazzle, has no
other explanation. We are confronted with the Empire of Darkness,
with a world without God.
A
few essential aspects of the world of Harry Potter demonstrate this.
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It
is truly a pagan world, an anti-Christian world which is described
all thoughout the story of Harry Potter. The world of sorcery,
of magic and of esotericism is depicted and put forward to the
imagination and the admiration of the reader as "a normal
world". This world, which is that of Satan, is "facinating",
- "...Because by your enchatments all the nations have been
led astray..."(7). |
A
pagan world
Those
who have not yet been taken in by the universal magic, the people
Moldus, are by definition losers. Most of the time, they are depicted
in a negative fashion, or are at least the objects of scornful pity
and are very often ridiculed. However, Potter’s world of witchcraft
is not completely exempt of “old-fashioned” natural values and of
Christian references. Ideas such as that of the family, father, mother,
parents, faithfulness, friendship and even the spirit of sacrifice,
of courage, etc., have there an important role. There is also mention
of vacations at Christmas and Easter. Although in a magical setting,
the numerous problems of actual life are introduced and developed.
Thus, for example, the school suffers from a hostile gutter press,
battles against racism and oppression, and is interested in democracy
and solidarity. The world of the Moldus, representatives of the “olden
days”, that is, the Christians, is entirely transposed into this pagan
world of magic, totally cut off at its roots (from Christianity).
The children do go to school, but to the school of the sorcerers.
They are obliged to study and to pass important exams, of course not
in math, or English or geography, but in subjects such as the science
of the plants, of magical potions, the care of people under magic
spells, divination, the history of wizardry, the science of metamorphosis,
the knowledge of the language of serpents, the taming of dragons,
etc.
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Harry
Potter absolutely cannot be compared to the classical tales,
which, without exception, possess a real educative value, where
the Good is always rewarded and the Bad is always punished.
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In
the absence of the true fight for the acquisition of virtues, abound
all the vices and all kinds of evil. This explains the bad language
of these adolescents, their crude and often vulgar expressions. Envy,
jealousy, and revenge, but also hatred and the pleasure of killing
form a part of this supernatural world and characterize its heroes.
Thus, the “good” Harry could quite naturally wish all kinds of evil
things on his teacher, whom he hates above everything else. He is
seen to curse him and to eliminate him as he would a spider that he
crushes and leaves to wriggle in agony. While crushing beetles, he
imagines that each one of them has the face of his teacher. This is
the “model”, the ideal, that is given to readers in the person of
Potter. The teachers themselves are just as much liars, fakes, and
hypocrites as their students. In the same chapter, Harry, foreseeing
that his teacher plans to poison him, plans to defend himself by throwing
a cooking-pot at his head, his “fat, greasy head”.
At
this stage, it is evident that there is no longer a question of these
books having “educative value”, “formation”, education in virtues!
Good
and Evil
Because
of the total rupture between the proposed values and the foundation
in which they should normally take root, we have a reversed plot,
a veritable inversion of its values. And this is why Harry Potter
absolutely cannot be compared to the classical tales, which, without
exception, possess a real educative value, where the Good is always
rewarded and the Bad is always punished.
In
the case which concerns us, there is indeed a battle between the Good
and the Evil, that is, on the one hand, Harry, sorcery, the school
directors, etc., and, on the other hand, Lord Voldemort and his bloodthirsty
partisans, the necrophagous. But the Evil isn’t always conquered and
the Good doesn’t win – except in appearance – and only by using evil
methods. Everywhere one looks the Good, as well as the Evil, uses
witchcraft, magic, as a means for combat.
Satan
and his pomps
The
goal of the education at the Poudlard School is neither beauty, nor
truth, nor goodness. On the contrary, the subjects studied constantly,
the ever-present topics are ugliness, vengeance and lies. For example,
an entire passage gives the description of a repugnant plant, resembling
a mollusk and having buboes filled with pus, which one must break
open in order to gather with precaution their very precious contents
and make of them a marvelous remedy. The details of the colors and
the odors are described in minute detail. In another part there is
most complacently depicted a monstrous creature, a sort of beast which
is half toad and half octopus, without a mouth, but which must be
fed (Harry asks himself how, – he has common sense…) with ant eggs,
frog livers, and pieces of snakes. These lessons of practical work
take place in an atmosphere both malicious and nasty. The hideous
dispute monstrously.
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In the 4th volume of Harry Potter the culminating
point is an unequivocal description of a satanic rite which includes
the death of a child, the profanation of the deceased in cemeteries,
a bloody sacrifice and blasphemies. |
White
magic and black magic
Harry
and his friends study different arts of witchcraft and we would like
to humor her in letting ourselves be carried along by the author in
this world of magic fantasy. Now we have men being changed into animals
and vice-versa. And then we see, and this is not the most difficult,
gold or delicious food made to appear. According to necessity, one
can rejuvenate or age as one wishes. Teeth can grow according to ones
desires, and of course they can also become more beautiful. With the
magic cape one can become – or make others become – invisible, one
can cover long distances in a few seconds (in case of car breakdown
it’s the “magic command of car accidents” that intervenes). Letters
and packages are distributed in the twinkling of an eye and those
who make mistakes in their witchcraft appear immediately before the
“Commission Against Bad Usage of Magic”, etc. etc.
As
we can see, the imagination – the lunacy? has no bounds.
| That is
why these books are exactly the contrary of what one would call
"inoffensive" or "recreational" books |
However,
one discovers, dissimulated under what appears to be an inoffensive
game, a spirit of seriousness, bloodthirsty and merciless, which shrinks
from nothing in annihilating every rival. At the school and from the
books of sorcery, the children learn the power of cursing and injuring
one another. A professor teaches irreversible curses which assure
a complete domination and an annihilation of the victim in an absolute
sacrifice.
From
esotericism to satanism
It
may be nothing but an unsettling coincidence that this mortal curse
is depicted exactly on page 666 (German edition). But it is not by
chance that ugliness leads to hatred and hatred leads to death.
Who
would dare to still speak of innocent games?
In
the 4th volume of Harry Potter the culminating point is
an unequivocal description of a satanic rite which includes the death
of a child, the profanation of the deceased in cemeteries, a bloody
sacrifice and blasphemies. Lord Voldemort, who personifies Satan,
but who is never called anything but “You-know-who” (6),
reunites his spirit with a human body, thus giving himself a new life.
It is not appropriate to reproduce here the rite described. However,
it can be affirmed that the formulas used in the rite are, without
any possible doubt, formulas which are blasphemous and anti-Trinitarian
and which claim to create life, to reproduce it and to copy it, imitating
the divine act of creation in a diabolical manner.
Of
course, the story shows Harry fighting against Voldemort; it is precisely
this which permits the obscure and confused theories of “myth of the
child-god” to be propagated, even though the Evil is never completely
vanquished, but on the contrary is, in a subtle way, glorified.
Conclusion
It
is truly a pagan world, an anti-Christian world which is described
all throughout the story of Harry Potter. The world of sorcery, of
magic and of esotericism is depicted and put forward to the imagination
and to the admiration of the reader as “a normal world”. This world,
which is that of Satan, is “fascinating”, – “…Because by your enchantments
all the nations have been led astray…” (7).
That
is why these books are exactly the contrary of what one would call
“inoffensive” or “recreational” books. It is strongly probable that
the young readers (and the adults) do not understand clearly – and
maybe not at all – the profound implications and the dangers that
these works contain. However, the minds and the hearts are thereby
prepared for a time when Satan will reign all-powerful, world-wide,
and when, in appearance, he can no longer be conquered by Christ;
for a time when the Moldus, the Christians, will no longer have the
strength to fight against the Evil.
The
author of the adventures of Harry Potter has in a certain manner acknowledged,
declaring to a journalist of the London Times: “These books help the
children to understand that this feeble and weak Son of God is nothing
but a joke which still has nine lives, and that he will be humiliated,
annihilated, at the coming of the deluge of fire.” (8)
It
is certainly not an exaggeration to affirm that those who conceive
and organize the intense media hype which ensures the promotion of
these books – the 4th volume came out just before Christmas,
exactly at midnight – are perfectly informed of the underlying stakes
involved and of the immense combat between Christ and Satan, and they
know perfectly into which camp they have enlisted.
As
for the Christian, he has gone with Christ.
At this point, it is evident that to differentiate oneself from this
dangerous craze is not only a necessity, but also an act of testimony.
– (Alias, December 16, 2000) "
(1) Paris-Match,
November 30, 2000.
(2) Figaro
Magazine, November 25, 2000.
(3) The
choice of proper names, in itself, merits a study.
(4) Figaro
Magazine, November 25, 2000.
(5) Die
Tagepost, No. 123, October 14, 2000.
(6)
In all likelihood this is in reference to the Jews in the Old Testament,
praising Yahweh, their God, in not pronouncing his name.
(7) Apocalypse:
18; 23.
(8) Aargauer
Zeltung, October 19, 2000. (It seems that Rowling did not say these
words and that the quote is not genuine. Note from the Editor)
