As it turned out, he became a successful marketing executive in Philadelphia, living with a wife, a child, and a Bernese mountain dog. So it doesn't seem to me, as some of our heavy contemporary philosophers suggest, that the Harry Potter craze portends the end of Western civilization as we know it. The Harry Potter caper is a great yarn. But that's all it is. It's fantasy, not truth.
Most children can easily differentiate between the two.
As is the key with the impact of all cultural experience on impressionistic young minds, they are best assisted to such conclusions when parents spend time discussing and interpreting these cultural experiences. The beginning chapter of the latest Potter book chronicles an eerie murder and tells of more murder to come from the evil Voldemort. If successive chapters get too bloody, we shall have to curtail our nightly reading, or deliver up selected excerpts. As someone who has made his living from the written word, and continues to marvel at the majesty of the English language, I revel in the knowledge that J.K. Rowling has caused many thousands of children to read who might otherwise not be reading. Our evenings begin with Harry Potter, but end with the Bible.