On Harry Potter

J.K.Rowling has created a phenomenon.
She has opened the doors to the industry of making little plastic figurines of book characters.
Even Disney made Halloween Town after harry potter.

Whether it is through her creative writing style, character formulation, or the fact that we've spent too much time reading 6 books already to stop before its over, she has made sure that anyone who reads her books will feel a very real connection to them.

I just started reading the last harry potter book a few weeks ago, cause i never read it.
number 6.
my grandma bought me the last one on preorder and it arrived friday i think.
i read the last page.
cheeky.

Ive been reading the book a little at a time, at night, before bed, before reading my bible. [as awkward as that looks right now...]
anyway, i just closed the book when Dumbledoor gets killed by Snape.
I wanted to punch something.
How could harry be stuck immobilized while he watched his greatest hero die?
I wanted to fly to britain and throttle Rowling for being so cruel to her readers.
Then i calmed down again.
I thought about how difficult it would be for Harry to find the Horcruxes on his own.
I thought about how Dumbledoor was one of the most powerful wizards alive.
I thought about how all of his experience and knowledge of old magic and memories and stuff were lost forever.

Then i came to my senses.
I brushed my teeth.
I looked at the mirror in disbelief.

J.K.Rowling has conceived a story that has drawn people like me into it, to relate to her characters. She has created an ultimate battle between good and evil.
She has made a 7-book, prolly around 5,000 page epic documenting the struggle.

And most convenient for my purposes right now...
she set it all in present times.




HAH!
and you all thought this was about Harry Potter!

...anyway.
Rowling made a book.
She took Evil, or perhaps "Dark Arts", and personified them as Lord Voldemort.
Then she immersed society in them, to the point where people's emotions are rocked by events in her book.
wait.
J.K.Rowling has more money than the Queen of England.
We spend billions of our money for her books, the movies, and the clever marketing of rubberized plastic actions figures.
Daniel Radcliffe now does shirtless modeling shots.
Many lives have been affected by her books.

let me clarify:
We spend billions of dollars supporting a FICTIONAL book written by some lady originally on napkins on a train.
FICTIONAL.
NOT REAL.
STORY.
BOOK.
LORD VOLDEMORT.

DOES ANYONE REALIZE THAT WE HAVE OUR OWN, V E R Y R E A L BATTLE OF GOOD AND EVIL SURFACING, IN OUR OWN, V E R Y R E A L REALITY?
jeeze people.
stop buying books.
start sending money to missionaries, to Speed the Light, to your Church...
start getting people saved, start using your resources for REALITY instead of a memorizing fantasy that's eating up your time and money.
Use your time for God, use your money for God, and realize that the Devil is a much bigger opponent than Tom Riddle.
And then go find those Horcruxes.