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Article: HARRY POTTER BOOKS SHOULD SPUR PARENT-CHILD DIALOGUE

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November 5, 1999
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(Second of two related columns concerning religion and the Harry Potter series.) Harry Potter had just triumphed in another face-to-face showdown with the forces of evil -- represented, logically enough, by a gigantic serpent. But the young wizard also discovered darkness, as well as light, in his own soul.

His ordeal in the Chamber of Secrets revealed that he truly was free to have embraced evil and the house of Salazar Slytherin, rather than the noble house of Godric Gryffindor.

"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities," says Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

This kind of scene is typical of the ...

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