Harry Potter Promotes Violence
Thursday, March 27th, 2008-
Books about Harry Potter are popular among young readers! Then not only children began reading it. Harry’s adventures became popular in all over the world, it is one of the bestsellers and the most recognizable and readable book. It made a giant progress in education, it made kids read! Harry is their best friend, they grow up together with him, for example, when the story started Harry was only 11, so are the children and now he is 17 and those children followed him on his way. Harry Potter has cinema versions, sometimes, it seems, that they are even more popular, than books. So, Harry Potter and everything considering him, is viewed as of the most appropriate coffee-table books for young readers. But, in the course of time and especially with the appearing of cinema versions, critics opinions has changed! Harry Potter and movies about him became too violent, too dangerous for children, they promote violence and destruction.
It is difficult to believe but they are not for children at all! Let’s have a closer look at those movies. So, main Harry Potter audience is children, but their mental state and psyche is changeable, they can’t make their own decisions yet, so, they think, that violence and murders, quarrels, evil is something common ans usual! Moaning Myrtle is a very interesing character, it frightens kids to death, nobody wants to use this toilette, because Myrtle is their. May be, every child, knowing about this, will have some troubles while going into public-toilet.
Quidditch! It is one of the stupidest games in the world! First of all, while playing, lerners at the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry ca be hurt and nobody tries explain to children, that playing those games in reality will be dangerous.
They are not fairytales, these books have much in common with real black magic and occultism. There can be made a lot of traces to real historical characters! For example, Lord Voldemort is as prototype of Hitler! He is striving to blood purity, but he is himself a half-blood person. So, he is promoting principles that he himself can’t follow.
Murders are a must! Movies and books are full of murders and crimes. They seem to be integral part of it. In this way Rowling wants to prepare children to reality and to the inevitable end of our lives - death! So, it is up to you to decide whether it is justified or not, to see blood and murders at, when you are only 10-years old!
Bad family relations! When a child is a cockshy in a family and he is constantly suffers from sneer and awful treatment from his own relatives it considered to be a norm, a perfect way of living.