AN: Just something I really thought some of you might want to know. I don't mean to cause any controversy. I just read it myself and it caused myself to wake up. Just thought you guys might want to inform yourselves like I did.
5 Problems and Muggle
Messages
First of all, the very beginning of the Potter drama
blurs the line between fantasy and reality. Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer's Stone opens with the Dursley family living in England
and refers to actual places like Kent, Yorkshire, the Isle of Wight
and the famous King's Cross subway station in London (from which
Harry later catches a train to Hogwarts). The Dursleys are also
portrayed as real people who fight traffic jams, watch the nightly
news, own computers and VCRs and are incorrigibly prejudiced against
anyone who practices magic.
In contrast to the stick-in-the-mud Dursley family is Albus Dumbledore, "the greatest wizard in the world,"7 whose "blue eyes were light, bright, and sparkling behind half-moon spectacles." 8 Albus first appears out of nowhereby using supernatural power as a representative of a vast and adventuresome underworld filled with hidden knowledge. Harry's life also blazes with adventure and intrigue, except when he returns from a semester at Hogwarts to spend the summer with the unimaginative Dursleys.
Here's a key point: Throughout the Potter drama there is a definite contrast made between friendly, exciting and intelligent wizards who have access to supernatural power like Dumbledore, Harry, and his friends and stuffy, boring, unintelligent "members of the non-magical community" 9 whom all wizards refer to as Muggles. The idea being communicated to kids is: Being a wizard like Albus Dumbledore or Harry Potter is fun, cool and exciting, while being part of "the dark Muggle world"10 and seeing through "Muggle eyes"11 is the pits.
Are children being confused by this mingling of facts with fiction? Yes they are. Rowling herself confessed to Newsweek :
"I get letters from children addressed to Professor Dumbledore, and it's not a joke, begging to be let into Hogwarts, and some of them are really sad. Because they want it to be true so badly they've convinced themselves its true." 12
How about Harry Potter 's Wizards vs. Muggles message? "The ordinary person is typified as being bad because they have no (magic) powers, and heroes are the people who are using the occult. This is an inversion of morality… ." 13
Thus children are not only being confused by Harry Potter , but they are also reading books that turn moral standards upside down by portraying witches as wise and all non-wizards (Muggles) as stupid.