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Religious debates over the Harry Potter series

I've listed this article for peer review because it recently failed an FAC nom (see link), largely on the grounds that it gave undue weight to a minority opinion (WP:UNDUE). The issue here is that, while this may be a minority opinion, it has nonetheless played an important role in the life of the books and has had a massive cultural impact, just as, to use a more extreme example, al-Qaeda and the IRA are infinitesimal minorities of their respective religions, but their opinions and actions have had a large impact on outside culture.¹ I am interested in finding ways that this could be accurately presented without appearing to offend people of religious faith, who seem the most askance at this article.

Thanks,

Serendi^podous 08:29, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

(btw, note to the confused: in response to complaints, this article has gone through six separate title changes)

¹To give some quantifiable evidence for this impact, harry-potter alone produces 134 million separate Google hits, whereas harry-potter and religion OR christian OR christianity produces 23 million Google hits, or 17 percent of the total. By contrast, performing the same pair of searches for Narnia and Lord of the Rings, both well-known Christian allegories, produces 21 and 14 percent respectively, and Star Wars produces only 2 percent.

The current version seems fine to me. Good show! VisitorTalk 16:22, 26 August 2007 (UTC)