The devil of Potter

The devil of Potter

While most religious shops have avoided selling Harry Potter books for fear of exposing youth to black magic, some Christian bookstores are now singing a different tune.
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Walk into the Logos Bookstore in Oak Park, Ill., and you'll find Bibles, the Left Behind novels, and a lot of other works you'd expect at a Christian shop. But go to the children's section, through a make-believe castle door at the back of the store, and you'll see a series of titles that make Logos unique among its peers: Harry Potter books.

"Our thinking is that because the mainstream public is reading the books, Christians should be aware of them and use them as an opportunity to bring in Christian themes and values," manager Beth Ann O'Reilly-Amandes said.
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But while Rowling's books are off limits, fantasy stories and works about Potter remain in demand. "Christian" alternatives to Potter, such as C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia and G.P. Taylor's Shadowmancer, have been popular fiction titles. Meanwhile, numerous religious works about Potter have come out in recent years.

John Granger's Looking for God in Harry Potter is a Christian author's defense of the series; Granger argues that Harry's fight against of evil reflects Christian values. Richard Abanes' Harry Potter and the Bible makes the opposite argument, that the books contradict such values.