The vociferous arguments against the Harry Potter books should have a been a clue to extreme fundamentalism. Anyone who actually read even the first book by itself would have quickly figured out that the real virtues being extolled had nothing to do with magic (which was incidental) but rather common virtues like love, friendship, loyalty, teamwork - things any child could and should emulate. But noooo, according to the fundies it was all about Satan. I have no patience with that *%!&. One of my favorite lines in those books was from the very last installment when Dumbledore meets Harry in a dream after Voldemort kills him. Dumbledore says, "Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it." I think that's beautiful. It's a pity so many people with absolutist / fundamentalist tendencies close their minds to such things. Their loss.