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A guide to the Harry Potter novels describes their themes of witchcraft and wicca from a spiritual perspective.

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Destiny Image Publishers
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April 1, 2005
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6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
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0768422795
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978-0768422795
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Millions of children across the globe are enjoying the magical adventures of Harry Potter. Are these harmless fantasies or is a sinister spirit lurking behind the best-selling books? Hour of the Witch: Harry Potter, Wicca Witchcraft, and the Bible scrutinizes these popular tales from a spiritual standpoint. Sorcery and the supernatural are essential to Harry Potter's escapades and parents should consider how all this wizardry influences their kids. Does being immersed in images of witchcraft have a lasting impact on an impressionable mind? Beyond this, real Wicca Witchcraft is growing rapidly among teens. Is Harry Potter fueling Wiccan growth?

learn the truth behind Harry Potter and how to protect your children from being bewitched.

About the Author

Steve Wohlberg is the Speaker/Director of Endtime Insights Radio and TV Ministry and hosts the nationally syndicated World News and the Bible radio show. Author of ten books, Wohlberg is highly respected for his simple style and clear thinking. He currently lives in Paso Robles, California with his wife Kristin and their newborn son, Seth Michael.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Destiny Image Publishers; 768th ed. edition (April 1, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 217 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0768422795
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0768422795
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches

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A Jewish Christian from Los Angeles, Steve Wohlberg is the Speaker/Director of White Horse Media and the host of His Voice Today radio and television broadcasts (see www.hisvoicetoday.com). The author of over 30 books, he's been a guest on over 500 radio and television shows, has appeared in three History Channel documentaries (Secrets of the Seven Seals; Armageddon Battle Plan; Strange Rituals), one National Geographic International documentary (Animal Armageddon), and has spoken by special invitation inside the Pentagon and U.S. Senate. He lives in Priest River, Idaho, with his wife, Kristin, and their two children, Seth Michael and Abigail Rose. His website is http://www.whitehorsemedia.com.

To view most of Steve Wohlberg's videos, visit http://www.youtube.com/whitehorsemedia.

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 30, 2023

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I bought this for my preteen niece. Hopefully, to get her away from the world of Wicca and Witchcraft that is so prevelant today. Very informative book for parents to read also.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 11, 2005

It's better than sleeping pills, which is why I give it two stars instead of zerooooo. And what a silly thing to think, Harry Potter is just a fun book, it's not out to wreck the jesus people. So why are they jumping all over this fun fiction that has got kids away from TV and back to reading for a change? And besides, I resent the idea that Harry Potter somehow represents real Wiccan beliefs. Trying to somehow relate Harry Potter to Wicca is like saying Spiderman is related to all the webs of deceit the Bush whitehouse weaves on a daily basis.

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Written by excellent author about the other side of the coin

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 11, 2009

Having four children of my own, I strongly suggest any responsible parent should read this book. There are so many things we have to protect our children from in this world. This book opened my eyes to many things. One of those is Harry Potter. Now you may say it's all just harmless fun in these movies and books. Well THINK again after you read this book your eyes to will be opened.

Many parents would have seen the first of these movies. And the first one seemed harmless enough..BUT as shown in this book each movie get darker and darker and very much more evil. I went to see the last Harry Potter movie by myself. I must say I was shocked to see how dark the movie was and there was NO way my children would see it ever. Please take the time to read this book and keep your children safe.

There are many other things mentioned in this book to keep your children safe.

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Tom C

Harry Potter is a Witch - Burn Him, Burn Him

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 15, 2005

I ran across a book at Books a Million this morning displayed prominently on the end cap.

According to the jacket blurb - Hour of the Witch is a book that will help you

"Learn the truth behind Harry Potter and how to protect your children from being bewitched."

I picked up the book out of curiosity and read quite a bit of it. According to Steve Wohlberg, Harry Potter is nothing more than the work of Satan and is being used to lure our children into the practice of "Witchcraft". He spends a lot of time comparing the magic of Hogwarts to Wicca, which is an incredible stretch to say the least. If there is a Wiccan group out there teaching "Care of Magical" creatures with a yard full of blast ended screwts and unicorns, I think we would know about it by now and a lot of us would take a peek over the fence.

Wohlberg's "evidence" includes some quotes from children being lured to the dark side. He lists quite a few of these such as one boy who professes his love for the stories and how he wishes he could "do magic". Using this evidence, those of us that grew up watching Elizabeth Montgomery wiggle her nose on Bewitched are surely sacrificing goats by now.

He also attempts to make a case that there are no actual good characters in Harry Potter. All of the characters according to Wohlberg exist in a neutral gray area (neither moral or amoral) and the children reading these books are drawn into the deception by not being able to decipher the good from evil. He attempts to support this argument by claiming that Harry, Hermione and Ron use deception, cheat and steal to accomplish their "selfish" goals.

Apparently Wohlberg failed the comprehension part of his reading classes. I can't imagine anyone reading these books that is drawn to the dark characters. Everyone I know has no problem identifying the Malfoys as evil characters, nor do they struggle morally with the heroic actions that Harry performs to prevent an even darker evil from returning to the world. Rowling does a wonderful job of creating conflict between her characters by placing right against wrong. You find yourself pulling harder for Harry because the Malfoys are so obviously against everything that benefits their fellow man.

Rowling doesn't avoid the issues of race and equality either. Harry lives with an absolutely despicable family in horrid conditions. Despite this he has none of the racist tendencies displayed by the dark characters against those that are different. In the Harry Potter books, these non-magical people are of course Muggles. One of Harry's closest friends, Hermione, even has muggle parents. Yet Harry sees beyond the exterior differences among people to focus on what is important, the inner self. Isn't that how we all should act?

Rowlings books in fact teach us a lot about family, friends and loyalty. And in a world where reading as a past time has a hard time competing with electronic media, lots of children read these books. Take note of that last statement.

Children are reading these books voluntarily.

The modern church would be wise to recognize this. Instead of writing diatribes against Rowling's work, they could concentrate on the values that Harry and his friends stand for. By embracing the positive aspects of modern popular culture, they will in turn be embraced by the youth they are claiming to protect.

Standing in the pulpit screaming nothing but fire and brimstone does nothing but drive the youth away.

In today's world that is not what we need.

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Herb in Texas

White Hats, Black Hats, and Gray Hats

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 5, 2005

Steve Wohlberg's book Hour of the Witch:...(2005) is a must-read book for several reasons. First of all, Wohlberg shows that in the Harry Potter series, Good and Evil have been hopelessly confused by the sleight-of-hand of those sorcerers who pretend there is no God in the Universe who is able to put a check on their evil and self-centeredness.

Remember, the old cowboy movies on TV, where the good guys wore "white" hats and the bad guys wore "black" ones? The symbols matched the moral character of the characters played by the actors. It left no doubt about where each character stood, morally speaking. However, the Harry Potter series does just the opposite and everyone wears a confusing "gray" moral, or amoral, hat. Wohlberg quotes Richard Abanes that:

"Rowling's fantasy presents a morally confusing world where good characters (e.g., Harry, Ron, Hermione, Lupin, etc.) consistently resort to unethical behavior (i.e., lying, cheating, stealing, deception) to further their own goals that are supposedly "good"."

In Harry Potter, moreover, evil is colored to be rather "harmless" and even "fun" and "exciting" because it has a certain "bread eaten in secret" sensation about it, and the traditional "good-versus-evil" theme, that pervaded good literature for millennia, appears to be missing in Harry Potter. Therefore, there are no white hats, or for that matter no black ones to be found either, that is, where evil is actually called evil. Only the morally neutral gray hats are worn by all the characters. Nobody is really either good or evil - just a confusing gray `blah' morally. And, therein is the danger. To the young, such an out-of-focus standard is very deceiving, and they start acting like they are wearing a gray hat, when, in actuality, they have a black one on. Such evil is admittedly exciting, for it titillates the senses of man, but for a really full fulfillment of those senses, whether it's food, or drink, power, or sex, or any of the other joys of life, there is always a lesser counterfeit available - and Satan offers cheap thrills, like a drug addict's desire to get just "one more high", while, on the contrary, God offers real fulfillment of these human desires underneath the brim of a wide white hat! If there is no Standard (and Wohlberg offers the greatest standard of them all - The Holy Bible) - as an alternative to Harry's neutrally gray evil; then, "very man does what is right in his own eyes" (Judges 21:25); or, in today's modern lingo, this is called "doing your own thing" There's only one problem, it can kill you. If a person violates the physical health laws, eventually it will kill him and deprive him of many years of a productive life (every drug junkie knows this) - and, with sorcery like that offered in Harry Potter, it can deprive one of many years of healthy moral living - and, if his principles are imbibed and lived by - even though, like all sin, it may be "pleasurable for a season" to engage in such counterfeit behavior, to obtain power over others and enslave them to the Potter philosophy - the end result is death - not only in this Age but in the Age to Come in Eternity.

In addition, Wohlberg gives much more than the mere facts about the Harry Potter series, for he ties sorcery back to its source in the ancient masterminds of Babylon of old, who were the fountain-heads of sorcery in past world history - for they refined sorcery rebellion to a fine art - using every psychological trick in the book to enslave others to their philosophy - like a drug dealer enticing a person to become a drug addict, for once hooked, that person becomes their slave who can then be bent to their will. Also, in the old cowboy movies, and still in most movies like Star Wars, etc., the goal is that Good always eventually triumphs over Evil. Not so in Harry Potter, for evil acts and prevails like it will live forever, and, seemingly the "smart" and "cool" perpetrator of evil gets ahead and gets what he wants (and is never checked), and this sorcerer is thus considered as "successful", while the not so smart ones, those who favor traditional morality and fear God reverentially, are relegated to the dust bins of history and basically ignored. "Breaking rules" and "having evil impulses" is considered the norm and the "cool" thing to do. Further, in Harry Potter, there is no Final Assize or Final Judgment on one's behavior, thus no one has to take responsibility for his actions, and any excuse is given to justify evil behavior and the breaking of the rules, such as those practiced by Harry and his friends: temper tantrums, lying, swearing, smoking, drinking, contemplating revenge, cursing, gambling, and crude language. Most parents don't want this for their children.

In summary, Wohlberg has done us a huge favor in not only pointing out the facts about Harry's descent into sorcery and witchcraft, but Wohlberg has clarified the moral lines that separate Good and Evil, and shows who wears the white hats and the black ones - for there is no gray, middle, moral ground in this conflict in the real world. And, Wohlberg further shows that Evil will indeed have its final end, and the Good will prevail at the wind-up of all things, when every man will stand before God to answer for those things done in the flesh - whether producing gold, silver, and precious stones, that will survive the judgment fire, or whether, like Harry Potter and his crew, the result is wood, hay, and stubble that will burn in the fires of God's Judgments, and be no more when Good triumphs over Evil in the End.

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