> Except that the good guys in the series often
use magical items as well. And remember the
magician/wizard/whatever in the building in
VotDT? Not one of the bad guys, I understand.

You're right. I forgot about him, probably
because he was such a minor character.
There are likely other examples that we aren't
remembering, too.

I suppose one could consider the
supernatural things that Aslan does in the
book "magic," but our good lion is obviously
meant to be symbolic of Christ, so naturally he
would be able to perform supernatural
"miracles," wouldn't he?

> Hmm. Is the magician in TMN good or bad?

I did think of him, and I decided that he was a
"bad guy," although a fairly tame one as the
series goes. After all, he was 1) meddling in
things he didn't really understand, and 2) a
coward who tricked or forced Digory and Polly
into being his guinea pigs rather than put
himself into possible danger.

> I'm not condemning the Narnia series, but
people should check the books they accept
against their purported objections.

I agree with you. That's why I don't want to just
blindly agree with what the Fundamentalist
community is saying about Harry Potter; I want
to find out for myself, and if I do decide that
Pottermania = Bad, then I want to be able to
give a good, sound, non-hypocritical reason
for my opinion.

Gri"if I decide that mythical creatures are evil
and all, then I'll have to change my
nickname"shny