Mission Statement

Remember once upon a time, when I said I wanted to start a "Christians and Harry Potter" website. Well, I'm finally getting off my butt and working on it again. Hopefully, I'll at least get a skeleton up in December.

Please consider submitting a review, essay, or article, so the site won't just be me jabbering on.

Here's the Mission Statement:

"This website is dedicated to helping parents and Christians make well informed decisions reguarding the Harry Potter series. The information, reviews, articles, and debates are intended to encourage reading, thought, and discussion."

If you have ideas for improving the Mission Statement, please let me know.

Categories for which I will need submissions:

The Good...and the Bad This is for essays on any issue covered by the Harry Potter Series. The essays can be on any topic from witchcraft to drug use to the portrayal of love or any social/religous issue you can think of. I am looking for essays both about HP's positive effects in the these areas AND essays on points that make you uneasy.

Religious Leaders Say If anyone has good research skills, I want to collect quotes made by religious leaders in regards to Harry Potter. Again, can be positive or negative. I think people will respect this site more if it's balanced.

Reviews This is the big one. I want to collect 5-10 well thought out and well written reviews on each Harry Potter book and film. Specifically looking for things that deal with age appropriateness, issues/moments/passages that might concern parents, and positive messages/quotes. You can certainly make comments about quality of the book/film as well.

I also want reviews for books ABOUT Harry Potter, particularly ones with a religous slant, whether for or against HP...and I know both exist.

Testimonies Christianity is not a dead religion. We have a live and active God who can use all things to His Glory. If you have a story about how God has used Harry Potter to give you a spiritual insight, please share. Or if you had a spiritual crisis concerning HP and have found a solution, please share this as well.

Links: I have mugglenet, the official HP site, JK Rowlings site, Tom Felton's site, and The HP Lexicon...mainly I'm looking for actors personal sites and major HP fan sites (no fanfic at the moment, that's a different animal). I currently have three categories.

Kid friendly, Teen friendly, and Christian Harry Potter communities (which so far lists this one)

If you would be willing to post your review/essay/article on this community for the time being, I would prefer that, just make a note on your post that this is for the website. I'm afraid things would get lost in my e-mail box if I gave my address out.

If you have ideas but aren't up to writing out articles, go ahead and post your ideas, and they maybe integrated into the website.