An addition to yesterday’s item on Michael O’Brien’s reaction to the Harry Potter stories: an alternative, and I think wiser, analysis of how the Christian ought to approach the stories by my friend Steven Hutchens: The Helpful Discovery of Dirt in Potter’s Field and Harry Potter Coda .
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