tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14168956.post5329635005964296785..comments2024-03-25T06:39:42.081-04:00Comments on Bonfire of the Vanities: A day in Dayton...Fr Martin Foxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01375628123126091747noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14168956.post-52609665337165823502009-09-02T10:44:30.658-04:002009-09-02T10:44:30.658-04:00Father, I'm in complete agreement with you on ...Father, I'm in complete agreement with you on Harry Potter -- and I think the books a worthy project for fall reading. As for your breakfast choices, I hope you won't abandon Tim Horton's altogether -- they do have pretty good breakfast sandwiches!<br /><br />Regards,<br />Patricia GonzalezAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14168956.post-3575165447947418332009-08-31T23:48:03.244-04:002009-08-31T23:48:03.244-04:00Since the beginning of the month, I've been re...Since the beginning of the month, I've been reading each book of the HP series, one after the another. After four weeks, I'm halfway through book 5. They're an easy read. I like the movies, but the books have a lot of interesting details and subplots that are conspicuously absent in the movies. I highly recommend the books as well as the movies for the same reasons as you, father.Fr. Ron Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16961731677722404956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14168956.post-12589796863058303872009-08-31T21:46:08.182-04:002009-08-31T21:46:08.182-04:00In the HP series, evil is not some nameless, forml...In the HP series, evil is not some nameless, formless, subjective anti-ideal hovering out there that no one can identify with any clarity.<br /><br />Instead, evil (or at least evil's "champion") does indeed have a name (though many are afraid to say it) and a hideous, inhuman form. Evil is not, as the bureaucrats of the "Ministry of Magic" and their shills would have you believe, some imagined dark past that has since dissolved in the mist. It has adherents and opponents, many clearly recognizable. Evil's agenda is clear. Evil is, bluntly, "incarnational" and tangible.<br /><br />In the HP world (strikingly unlike the real world, as far as many people -- even Catholics -- are concerned) there IS a Satan and he IS jealous of us and wants us to be destroyed. That is certainly a strong point of the HP series.Jeffrey Pinyanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08758581112217835988noreply@blogger.com