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When Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was released
on June 21, 2003 - Summer Solstice - I had never read a Harry Potter book nor
seen a Harry Potter moviein my life. So when it broke book sales history by selling
a record 1 million copies within48 hours, I decided to take a trip to my local
Barnes and Noble and pick up a copy of the first book in the series, Harry Potter
and the Sorcerer's Stone, to see what all the fuss was about. I went into it with
acompletely curious, neutral frame of mind. I didn't expect to hate it, and I
didn't expect to love it. I was aware of all the controversy surrounding the series
with the religious groups screaming that it's the work of the devil, to which
Ihad an eye-rolling attitude towards since I figured the most I would see in the
book was a lot of kid's level spell casting witchcraft. So I was a little caught
off guard to find that. The Sorcerer's Stone was by far the best written kid's
book I had ever read, and that it involved sophisticated occult themes that would
be on par with an adult novel. And after finishing the book and taking a closer
look, I also realized that the story seemed to be a giant metaphor regarding 4th
density, and was most definitely utilizing hypnotic mind control techniques and
symbolisms in orderto convey that metaphor. | |
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