As anticipated, the fourth book in the Harry Potter series is on, and off again, the shelves of bookstores worldwide. Young children will find the scenes involving the evil wizard Lord Voldemort's reappearance terrifying.
Death occurs, as well as bloody self-mutilation with a dagger.
Rowling seems to be getting more like a Gothic Dean Koontz and less like C.S. Lewis with every book. After the opening scene reintroduces readers to Voldemort, the book wanders back to the wicked world known as Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. When these images and suggestions become part of their thinking and emotional experience, they learn to see forbidden practices as more normal than God's way. Once a child makes this mental switch, they become part of a new group that often mocks Biblical Christianity. It would seem that the prediction made by many, including Parent Talk in our initial Special Report on Harry Potter, is proving to be true.