The Half-Blood Prince
Brooklynne finished the new Harry Potter tonight and then we went to fairfax where they were showing the third HP movie for free on one of George Mason's athletic fields. So, in the spirit of the night, I thought I would offer a link to an interesting (if short) blog I read about reading Harry Potter and other not-strictly-christian-type books. The blog also has a link to an intersting article for further reading.
This quotation came via a guy I know named Paul, regarding kids and fantasy. He's quoting Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
"' . . .from my early reading of fairy tales and genii etc. etc. my mind had been habituated to the Vast and I never regarded my senses in any way as the criteria of my belief. I regulated all my creeds by my conceptions, not by my sight, even at that age. Should children be permitted to read romances, and relations of giants and magicians and genii? I know all that has been said against it; but I have formed my faith in the affirmative. I know no other way of giving the mind a love of the Great and the Whole.'"