Millstones in the Road XII: 7 Facts about Harry Potter

One of the Multiple Covers of Harry Potter Books. 

I never thought I would be writing about Harry Potter, because since I rejected Vatican II in 2016 and became a sedevacantist in 2018, I am familiarized with the reasons why the series ought to be condemned. However, I reckon many of you may be new to the world of traditional Catholicism, and the series is superemely popular, so some 7 facts about the Wizarding World would be worth it. 

Behold, my quick facts about Harry Potter, he iconical books authored by Jeanne Kathleen Rowling that narrate the stories of a boy who attends a school on wizarding and spell-making, as well as fighting against his nemesis, Voldemort. 

1: J.K Rowlling's Curious Claims about How She Writes

Jeanne Kathleen Rowling claims she got Harry Potter "fully formed"  pretty much as if she had gotten it out of the blue. Don't believe me? Well, this is how she describes her writing abilities: 

First, she describes how the characters came into her mind: 

"Harry as a character came fully formed, as did the idea for his sidekicks, the characters of Ron and Hermione who is the brains of the threesome. It starter with Harry, then all the other characters and situations come flooding into my head" (Boston Glove, January 3, 1999, Massachussets USA)

"The character of Harry justs strolled ino my head... I really did feel he was someone who walked up and introduced himself in my mind's eye" "I was staring out the window, and the idea for Harry just came. He appeared in my mind's eye, very fully formed" (Reuters, "Harry Potter Strolled into My Head" July17 2000) 

Then, she describes the way in which she writes: 

"I have a very visual imagination. I see it, then I describe what is in my mind's eye"(The Associated Press, Sheila Norman-Culp, New York, www.turkishdailynews.com)

"And I love writing dialog. Dialogue comes to me as though I'm just overhearing a conversation." (January Profile: J.K Rowwling, by Linda Richards www.januarymagazine.com)

Now, while there is some probability that Harry Potter wasn't fully written by spirits, and perhaps Rowlling is only describing a very vivid imagination as well as a character that was pretty much dwelling within her subconscious so to speak, however I think that Harry Potter's connection with the occult suggests that this facts should be considered when discussing the novels.  

2: Harry Potter and Lawfull Authority

While this is not the place to discuss obedience to lawfull authority (a good place for that would be here) sufice us to say that Harry Potter's books follow a quite anarchic attitude towards authority. For example, Harry Potter only obeys those teachers he likes and those rules he agrees with, and he is barely recriminated for his disobedience. 

While it would be fine if the books taught disobedience to evil commands, Harry and his friends are always to treat Hogwarts as a big playground where there are no rules outside of their wills, nothing matters. And the sad truth is that you must follow just laws, even if they seem to block good. 

For example, in The Philosopher's Stone, Harry and Ron are mischevous students who reject the friendship of Hermione until she lies to cover them up. Most of Harry's adventures are based around staying out of bed at night, stealing elements, investigating in forbidden areas. and lying to teachers, as well as the usage of magickal arts. His disobedience is what eventually leads to resolving the school's problems with Voldemort. 

Malfoy's house-elf Dobby engaged in episodes of self-harm every time he disobeyed his master, for the magick keep him enslaved to the evil teacher. 

In The Prisoner of Azkaban, law enforcers are Dementors, demonic creatures who feed on your soul. 

In The Order of the Phoenix, Hogwarts is controlled by a horrible woman called Mrs. Umbridge, some sort of sorcerer version of governor Withmer who exerts her self-important authoritarianism to the point of tormenting students who happen to disagree with her. She forms a snitch-on-your-classmate police directed by Harry's nemesis Draco Malfoy. 

Mrs. Umbridge was there because the Ministry of Magick had decided that Harry and Dumbledore, who were spreading the news that Voldemort was back were lyng and needed control. Later it happened that the Ministry itself was under control from the evil lord. 

While in some cases I don't oppose such portrayal of authority every-so-often, the whole books are full of this narratives whose purpose is to make it seem that the only lawfull authority is your own, and those authorities who happen to agree with you. You are not being told the whole story about authority. 

Also, some argue that concentration of power and authority corrupt morals, however, Harry and his friends are learning to control magick. What can make you more powerfull than magick? You can brain-control others, impersonate people, kill them, fly on brooms, affect their dreams and more. So our protagonist concentrates all this power and he is not corrupted, yet everyone who hates him is bad because their power corrupted them? Please. 

3: Harry Potter and the Occult

Now you've probably learned from rumors that J.K Rowlling took it very seriously and researched the actions of real sorcerers and wizards as well as demonic activity. 

However, I don't think we need to go very deep on that. Harry learns to practice divination, contact with spirits, his school is full of ghosts and most wizarding stuff that you will see practiced on religions like wicca and voodoo. Since all this things are abominable to the eyes of the Lord, it doesn't take a lot of effort to abandon these books. 

For those who are interested, some examples that show Rowlling does know something about the occult are here:

- If you are going to have "deathly hallows", it's probably because you think death is holy 

- The Philosopher's Stone is full of alchemical references. Nicholas Flamel was a real alchemist who alegedly found the philosopoher stone, a magickal powder to be immortal. 

- Harry's beloved godfather is named Sirius Black. Sirius, a star of the constellation Canis Majoris, is associated with satan and false gods in some occult groups. (Fair Warning: Protestant "born again" website) This character is a misunderstood individual who protects Potter from evil, and the Magickal Authorities are always out to get him - this is pretty much how occultists understand satan. 

. Th killing curse "Haveda Kedavra" (mispelled on purpose - QUV) sounds like "Abracadabra", a word with supposed magickal healing powers. In fact, while J.K Rowlling claims most of her spells are invented, Haveda Kedavra is based on this ancient word, which was written forming a triangle 

- There is a scene were students are told to open their "mind eye". Various new-age followers believe that humans have some sort of third eye in top of their forhead, who must be opened to enlighten the individual to the occult knowledge. You probably noticed tha Rowlling refered to the mind-eye a lot in the interviews. 

- Voldemort constantly posesses people, involving the divination teacher and Potter himself. I mean, he is the villain, but it suggests wizards can posess each other. He also intrudes in Harry's mind by nightmares. 

- Albeit not present in the movies, ghosts are everywhere in the book. Related with spirit contact, spiritism. 

- The plants known as "manticores" are shaped as human babies, and they stewed as healing. Human sacrifice? Cute. 

- Rowlling uses an anagram for Madame Blavatsky, in the teacher named madam Vablatsky. Blavatsky was the founder of the theosophist movement. 

Even if we were to say that J.K Rowlling isn't an occultist, she claims she researched a lot about alchemy and knows a lot about wicca; this means that you can become heavily curious into the occult after accessing the books because you want to understand where did your beloved writer bought her inspiration from. 

4: Harry Potter's Teaching on Love is Pathethic 

Harry Potter teaches that love is what prevents you from being evil, since Voldemort is incapable of loving. Yet, can we really say that Voldemort doesn't love himself? Just as Stalin loved himself? If Voldemort hated himself, he wouldn't be so obsessed with self-preservation, to the point of putting small parts of his soul in objects to attain immortality. Harry is protected by his parent's love, but truth be told, love has no magickal powers. 

5: Hogwarts is Actually a Quite Dark, Dangerous Place

Some fans idolize Hogwarts as some sort of safe haven, even dreaming to go there and study magick. However, through the story we learn that Hogwarts (some sort of inversion of is quite a dark place. 

It is inhabited by dangerous creatures like a Cancerebrus, and the Basilisk, and Dumbledore warns Harry & Co that they shouldn't go to the third corridor of the right wing, otherwise they will face a painful death. All of this issues remind us of how reasonable the strict laws regarding safety on the school are, and how Harry does wrong in disobeying them. 

The teachers themselves don't seem to care a lot about security. They play Quidditch, a dangerous game which involves flying on brooms with heavy balls made of metal. Students have been reported to die playing this thing, and others waked up form accidents after months - implying severe impacts to the head and comatose states. 

Other stuff about the laws is increasingly dark. Characters curse each other as retalitation from harrasment and even for mere purposes of bullying. We are told that children used to be punished by hanging from their thumbs, by a character who says "he missed the screams". While learning to make antidotes for venom, proffesor Snape hints at the students that he may poison one of them to see if their antidotes worked. Mind you, but my biology teachers never asked me to taste the acid solutions we made. 

The Triwizard Competition is not much different from the Hunger Games, in which young people need to face death in a competition supposed to be entertaining. Facing dragons, mermaids and a brutally creepy labyrinth. There are reports that competitors have died in the past. Just what you want yout children to face, huh? 

6: Hogwarts is a Mixed-Sex School. This is why this is bad: 

I am a strong opponent of representations of romance in stories for children, particularly if they are very descriptive of the feelings and passions involved on it and don't reduce themselves to "they married and lived happily everafter" or "Ben loves Arwen", beacause they facilitate our obsession with romantic love. Most of Harry Potter's fan art and ficiton revolve around the romantic relationships between the students, since Hogwarts is a mixed-sex school. 

Mix gender-schools are harmfull for both sexes. For women, it makes it easier to discriminate and bully those who are fat and ugly, or nerdy and shy. Men don't attract girls by being good students, but by being bossy bad-boys with lots of muscle, so this discourages them at school. Very close, intimate friendships between men and women can lead to romance - and it's not like if romance can't lead to pre-marriage reproduction, particularly when we are young and immature. 

Ron loves Hermione, but he also loves Lavender, causing them both to be jealous of each other. Look, this jealousnes and luv competition are always there, but they are greatly enhanced by mixed-sex education. It is also a source of bullying and a significant distraction from school matters, after all, you see your girlfriend or crush at school every day.  

I was greatly sadenned to notice various Harry Potter memes revolve on romantic and sexual matters, but not surprised, since romantic love is an important topic on most books and films. 

For more information on mixed-sex education, I share this link and this link 

7: The Concept of Muggles Reveals some Dirty Facts about the Occult, as Well as a Race Supremacist Mentality on the Wizarding World. 

Those unable to use magick are derided as "muggles", and even as "dirty blooded muggles". This rather discriminatory sentence reveals a dirty secret that occultists hide. 

Have you ever been proselytized by a mason? by a theosophist? by a wiccan? A gnostic perhaps? No. This is the reason why this religions are known as "occultism", because unlike others, they aren't really interested in converting people to them. I am perfectly fine whith that, for I loathe the proselitism of false religions, but the concept of hiding "da truth" from those pesky, smelly, inferior masses is full of hubris and speaks very badly of esoterism in general. (Why would you want to hide "da truth"?) Makes them look elitist, and dishonest, as they prefer to sell themselves via subliminal messages in books and films rather than letting their beliefs to be exposed to the bone. 

How many open-minded parents let their kids consume Harry Potter material? They would rather die than let their little ones be intolerant of sodomy, marxism, apostasy and depraved popular musick by repeating mantras like "live'n'let live" "everybody is different but equal" and "as long as it doesn't hurt anyone, is fine", but letting their children read a novel in which those not born with magickal powers are contemptuosly refered to as "muggles" is suddenly all right? In fact, the books say that those with magickal powers have magic in their blood, and "muggles" have not a single drop of magickal blood into their veins. Can't wait until they cancel Harry Potter for racism. 

Conclusion:  A Vatican II Sect Connection?  

It is undeniable that the Vatican II sect members are divided on this issue, just as they are divided on whether muslems and Christians worship the same God, wheter you can enter Heaven as a non-Catholic, whether adulterers and non-catholics can receive communion and so forth. Some people rejoice in the "elements of truth" of Harry Potter, suggesting the franchise is "christian" and that Harry teaches you "loyalty, bravery and friendship". Others see the book as an occultist, morally relativist satanic crap that ought to be burned and forgotten.

That didn't keep L'Osservatore Romano from approving the films Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as well as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. 

(Hey, but what do you expect from a newspaper that would praise Michael Jackson, David Bowie and Judas Iscariot himself?) 

The polish novus ordo who burned Harry Potter books? Apologized to the mob. 

It's sad that Harry Potter would be so popular in our society, but we couldn't expect less from this world. Harry Potter fans who happen to come across this post will probably try to devour me and call me hateful and so forth, but I don't care. I enjoy not liking Harry Potter. 

 

I don't like Tangled, either, but the meme is just perfect.