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Top 6 Reasons Harry Potter Isn't For Kids

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With Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix due soon in theaters and the book release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows imminent, children, pre-teens and functionally retarded adults across America can sigh with relief: Their favorite boy wizard is back. But are kids, young adults and the mentally stupid Potter's target audience anymore? Both the films and their source material, J.K. Rowling's book series, have increasingly started to incorporate dark, violent subject matter. In the place of fantastical creatures, childhood wish fulfillment fantasy and schools of fatherly wizards, we now have hideously deformed and fanged dark lords, soul-stealing wraiths and parents murdered on-screen.

Was it always like this, and we just didn't notice? Below, six reasons why the popular children's series has always had its dark side.

#6.
Moaning Myrtle: Creepy and Depressing

Moaning Myrtle, a ghost who haunts the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, is clearly meant to be adorable: She talks in cutesy baby-talk, wears big nerdy glasses and seems to harbor a quiet crush on our hero, Harry Potter. Aww.

She's so adorable, in fact, that it's easy to forget that we're talking about the tormented specter of a child who's doomed to exclusively haunt middle school bathrooms. Assuming she's into it, you've got a pubescent dead voyeur watching school-age boys use the toilet. Assuming she's not, you've got a murdered child who's forced to hang out in a smelly-ass bathroom for all eternity.

Either way, holy Hell, is that some dark shit. Children who read this book will probably have difficulty using public restrooms for the rest of their lives, forever looking over their shoulders while dropping deuces, fearful that they're being scrutinized by an underage poltergeist with a weird bathroom fetish. Thanks a lot, Rowling. We'll be sending you our psychiatrist bills.

#5.
Harry Potter: Bad Role Model

Not to give too much away, but as the Harry Potter series progresses, Harry-our lovable Everyman protagonist-starts dating his best friend's sister. Granted, if our experiences were any judge, it's not like most of the douches you meet in college need J.K. Rowling's approval to start seeing your sister or girlfriend behind your back. Nonetheless, that's a little creepy. It's difficult to imagine wanting to help your best friend defeat Voldemort when you know he'll be celebrating afterwards by casting "Disapearro Clothesimo" on your sister.

To her credit, Rowling tries to temper the example set by Harry by teaching us that your best friend's sister is almost always secretly possessed by some manner of dark lord. Still, we're pretty sure there are subtler ways of teaching children who to date than suggesting that a crush on their pal's kid sister involves getting roped into a creepy three-way with a noseless Ralph Fiennes.

#4.
Quidditch: The Sport of Sinfulness

Quidditch is a dirty, filthy game that should not be viewed by anyone at all, let alone children. Let's start with the obvious: The game is played by having each player climb on top of a long wooden shaft. Then everyone rides their shafts around, trying to "beat off" the other shafts flying all over the place and chasing balls around the field.

There's also something called the golden snatch-excuse us, "snitch." A few talented young boys try to find this special tiny thing, which is hard to find, but makes women squeal with delight when you grab it. What kind of author is J.K. Rowling that she'd try to convince impressionable children that the mythical G-spot actually exists?


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Posted on 9/23/2008 11:14:37 PM

Hello, I'm back again, to continue to destroy this entire article.
In Reason #1 The (Bad) Parent Trap
You say that every child that doesn't have a good home life waits for the day that goblins come and take them away to a world where blah, blah, blah. If you read the books, you would realize that goblins do not take people in JKR's story, they run the bank.
Another thing, you ask why the Wizarding World lets Harry return every summer, and this I can awnser very easily, just as anyone who has read the series can tell you: Harry returns to his Aunt and Uncle's every summer because Dumbledore (your 'old grandfatherly figure) put an enchantment on him to protect him from your KKK/Hitler man named Voldemort. Lighten up will ya? It's fiction after all.

Posted on 9/23/2008 11:54:33 AM

HAHA! I have been searching for a site that has such a closed-minded, rant against HP so that I would have a funny quote for my school project about banned books!
I couldn't have found a better example of people over reacting to a fictional story. Let me ask you one thing man, did you read the books? Moaning Myrtle was NOT supposed to be funny or cute, she is merely a bitter girl who's life was tragically cut short.
Thanks again!

Posted on 9/23/2008 11:45:25 AM

waa waa. lighten up. it's only fiction, irreverent humor does not equal blasphemy. Some of you are gettin yerselves so riled up over this one might think the author was killing puppies whilst simultaneously pissing on a bible and burning a flag. Quirky british humor full of melodramatic magic teenagers caught up in an allegorical good vs. evil story of biblical proportions is sure to be silly enough we can make immature jokes about it when we arent busy exploring the philosopical and social subtext and blogging about how deep it really is.

This sort of doggmatic reverence for the books and the fits of hystrionics when others fail to take the books as seriously as you do; only serves to enhance the notion that that all fans of the series are just as nutty as a pack of klingon speaking trekkies. (in short its embarassing to the rest of the fans that would like to enjoy the work without being labled fruity whack jobs)

Posted on 9/23/2008 5:27:25 AM

Maybe the only reason I feel that this is crap is because I am such a Harry Potter fan, but to me the only way that half of this can seem the way you make it seem is if you think of it in a perverted way. I mean, there was no premarital sex in any of the books involving Ginny and Harry, or any of the other characters. Also, Quidditch wasn't meant to seem perverted either. It was a GAME. The only way it should even seem that way is if you think of it like that.

Also, she may have taken things from history but she made it her own. Is that not what all writers do? They take things from their own experiences and world history and put them in writing. It's called research. It is something that almost everyone does.

No, this story isn't quite like what Disney puts out there. It's not the simplistic fairy tale where everything ends up being perfect. Why? Because the world isn't perfect. If she wrote the perfect ending for Harry it wouldn't have made any sense. This book is more of a preparation that any Disney stories.

Also, the whole Moaning Myrtle is a perverted old ghost who stalks young boys in the bathroom thing is going way to far. You're over thinking it. It was clear in the books that she wanted to be left alone. Not only that but was she not supposed to be in the girls bathroom? Remember book two when they made the potion in there because no one wanted to go in. Why? Because Myrtle liked being alone.

In conclusion, I would like to say that you should think before you post things like this. Also this site was meant for comedy not insulting books. If I have children one day I would be proud to let them read Harry Potter. It's much better than prissy fairy tales that lie and make life seem perfect when its really not. We are humans and all of us make bad decisions at times. Just like Harry. There have been people, like Hitler, who come and try to kill out a race just as Voldemort did, so why is it so horrible to write about something that could actually happen and has before? I would want my children to see that even when things go wrong and they make mistakes and fight against unbelievable odds, they might have a chance just as Harry did.

As for you, I am seriously hoping that you see the error in all of this. It's not right for someone to post things like this. None of that was meant to be taken that way and it just shows your ignorance and perversion when you posted this.

Goodbye.
Please see a psychologist. :]

Posted on 9/20/2008 10:39:15 AM

fairy tales are only bright and happy if you think about disney-ish versions.

Posted on 8/14/2008 4:40:27 PM

"Harry Potter is a better book than prissy fairytails that lies to them and tell them life's perfect, that someone can be pure"
uhm I think you are the stupid one Giles. Haven't you ever heard of the Grimm Fairytales? The original ones? they are nothing like the crap Disney pulls. Maybe you should read them sometime and then you will see that fairy tales aren't exactly full of sunshine and rainbows

Posted on 7/6/2008 7:28:21 PM

Dumbledore did die in the 6th book...

Posted on 6/14/2008 9:57:41 AM

Interesting question, how does one wander in here, read all this, and still not realise it's a comedy site? I think the little zealots google-search "Harry Potter-LOTR-Starwars sucks" and copy-paste these sad posts on every page they find. Ooooh how they ruin our fun... ^_^

Posted on 6/9/2008 8:52:06 AM

Oh the controversy.

Posted on 6/3/2008 9:13:35 AM

A quote from GTA IV: "You know there's no good, no evil... just shades of f*****g grey."

Posted on 5/30/2008 4:04:04 AM

I registered as a user here for the exact purpose of laughing at and telling people who take articles such as these too seriously that they are in fact, dumbasses. :)

Posted on 5/24/2008 2:29:36 PM

Um, Giles... you know this is a Comedy Site, right? Meaning... not to be taken seriously...?

Posted on 4/6/2008 7:09:30 AM

Matty

ok, the guy below Giles Mourvount that left that essay of a comment, all i have to say is 'f**k off its just a bit of harmless fun'!!! he really needs to stop jizzing over HP and let us read this & have a laugh lol

Posted on 3/6/2008 3:18:41 AM

I like the movies and TV

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Posted on 2/23/2008 9:47:28 PM

Geez

The people below me really need to know this is a comedy site.

Posted on 2/22/2008 11:20:26 AM

unknown

The sentence is too long.

Posted on 2/21/2008 6:45:50 PM

Giles Mourvount

okay top 6 reason why you are bogus and a sick man.
6. Moaning myrtle...?
Excuse me, have you read the book by any chance? She is shy--yup, depressed--yup. But the image that she is somewhat, what you conjure up as, a 'perv' was only in the movies. In the book she wanted to be left alone and actualluy NOT SEE ANYONE. And it was only thanks to Harry that she left the bathroom and started being a self-respecting ghost.
5. Harry Potter
How did he became a bad role model again? By dating his bestfriend's sister? *chuckle* so if you happen to love your friend's sister it's BAD? god, what a sick person you are... And besides I didn't remember anything improper that Harry did to Ginny. No premarital sex mentioned in book two (Ginny's Debut as a HP chara)or perhaps in book six? (where Harry showed he like Ginny) nope not there either... hmmm probably in the last book! oh no there's none either. I'm starting to think you really are a sick man, to be hallucinating like that? Are you on any drugs?
4. Quiddich
Honestly, there wasn't any SEXUAL intent there. There was only such a thing because you think of it. Honestly, if that is so then the same goes for the muggle sport 'basketball' I mean it teaches us to 'shoot the ball in a very small basket' and when you do... ahh god the crowd goes wild! *yuck*
3. Oh dear god... don't even start...
Okay just to give you a little confidence in your work. Maybe she did gave an inkling about that but... Didn't they fight for muggle rights? They saved the muggles or mongrel (tch... how ever you want to put it), yey horah J.K! Honestly... you should see a psychologist... what led you to write this trash?
2. Murder/ death
yeah we grew up playing those games... cool... *immitates kids squeeling* let's go kill some odd walking mushrooms!!!! All they do is blink and disappear anyway! I think that this point goes to J.K again! He showed us DEATH is not to be taken lightly, cause there's a consequence, they don't just disappear, they have relatives that cry and care. So dude, seriously, go to a psychologist... nintendo games hit you hard.
1. Bad Parents
So? Yeah Every kid wants a better family. What's so bad about that? Just to tell you fiction is for the discontented *a quote from my cousin* not the joyful and naive. So if you're contented with your family good, if not then... just keep working on it, you 'Dudely' might just be waiting for you to help him *read HP7 bozooes*
So in conclusion... If ever I'm having kids? Harry Potter is a better book than prissy fairytails that lies to them and tell them life's perfect, that someone can be pure. We're only human, we can make bad decissions, but that doesn't make us demons, coz like Harry, we can face our fears and mistakes-- and not just learn from them, we should correct them as well...
And for you buddy, I mean it see a PSYCHOLOGIST!

Posted on 2/17/2008 2:17:33 AM

Uhmm...K...

There once was a magical time called 1993...in this time, there was no such thing as "harry potter", and I...a young child...sat waiting for goblins to come carry me away. And guess what...im an honor student graduating 7th in a class of 62. Its no wonder kids are so mental these days...what happened to the days of cartoons beating each other over the head with anvils, and laying in the back window of the car while going 60 down the highway, and getting beat with a switch when you were naughty? I miss the good old days when people still wanted to give children imagination and wonder, and didn't assume they used college level analysis to compare sports lingo with body parts and sexual activities. You really got to stretch your mind to see where these points are coming from...im not buying it.

Posted on 1/23/2008 6:33:17 PM

f**k POP-FANTASY... TO THE MAX!!!

Posted on 1/23/2008 8:57:25 AM

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