The Mail Bag!

Welcome to the mail bag.

The mail bag contains all the e-mails that you send to us. And yes all the emails are real. So if you send us an email you will get your email shown up on the web site. We will place all types of emails from hate mail to fan mail.

Hate Mail

You have got to be sh*tting me! Talk about petty. Have any of you guys read a HP book, or seen one of the films? I doubt it. If you had, you'd know that HP promotes a lot of ideals that many kids lack - friends above fame/fortune, good over evil, all that stuff.

As for the magic - it's a STORY! It's fiction! I bet you guys would have been lining up to burn witches back then.

Spend more time with your kids, teach them right and wrong, teach them to accept others for what they are, then let them make the decisions. Otherwise you may wish to learn the word indoctrination - cos that's what you're doing.

From Lee Penney

- In Response -

Listen, you silly boob, just because someone has an opinion different from your own doesn't mean they are necessarily ignorant. All the anti-Potter people I know of have read the books and seen the movies. They are also notably more intelligent than the Potter fans I know of.

As to the "good values," there are few works of literature with absolutely no redeeming qualities. The fact that the Potter books promote the value of friendship does not negate other features such as that they also promote stealing. From my point of view, the Potter books are rather values-challenged.

From Mongo

- In Response -

I don't remember calling anyone ignorant, narrow-minded, perhaps. And I do value opinons that differ from the norm, but when you see some of the extreme measures being implemented - all to stop kids being "corrupted" by HP - you have to wonder. I think we all underestimate kids, and that they should be given the option to read it or not (as with most things, there are limitations of course), and not have someone else decide whether a work of fiction (and that's what we're talking about) is good for them.

How many parents stop their kids watching the news? Or the recent coverage of the war? How many stop them playing computer games? Not half as many as ban them from reading HP I'll wager.

And if it gets kids away from their computers and reading again, surely that's a good thing.

And please don't call me a "silly boob" because, unlike your experience, I am a reasonably intelligent HP fan, and rather older than the intended age range. I could say that my experience of HP haters tends to uncover people filled with jealousy and narrow-mindedness, but that would generalising.

From Lee Penney

- In Response -

Parents have the free right to control what their children do and don't do up to a certain level. I have read all the potter books and seen both movies so far, though I feel the movies could havce been acted better the books themselves are worthy of merit.

People are entitled to arguing their opinion, and if you cannot comprehend the fact that other people don't like Potter you should be slapped with a wet fish.

All books promote some illegal activity, name a book that doesn't.

From << jsw >>

Hate Mail

I cannot understand why people hate the HP saga, especially the ones who do so on religious grounds. Imagine the uproar if Atheists such as myself decided we wanted to ban anything that encouraged non-christians to question their faiths. Bonkers!

From Eoghan

Fan Mail

It's that i hate Harry Potter but i'm totally sick of it. all the merchandie, the film have rruined what had the potential to be a loegendary book. succees has spoiled it.

From Eve

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