Lifesite does it again

[pegkerr]

Get a load of this particular hobbyhorse.

Not content with the critical skills offered by Michael O'Brien, that "foremost Harry Potter critic" (see here) Lifesite helpfully publishes another essay with this fascinating hypothesis:

We wish to hypothesize that the popularity of the Harry Potter series is due to the fact that the themes and the main character strike deep chords in the minds of our younger generation because they are abortion survivors.

Read the rest here.

Really, there are no words.

(Well, maybe you have some. Let 'er rip.)

Comments

[sternel.livejournal.com]

I wish to hypothesize that these people are so busy bashing Harry Potter because they're deathly afraid their kids will find it more interesting than their own drivel.

No wait, I don't wish. I do. Try claiming your ideas, guys.

(AND. "Abortion survivors?" What useless phrasing. Since I was not aborted (says she, obviously, as she is here to type this), does that make me an "abortion survivor?" Wouldn't that mean anyone drawing breath is an abortion survivor? Including the authors of this ridiculous phrase? And since they, abortion survivors all, are demonstrating with all this flailing that they are not in fact deeply struck by HP, their hypothesize fails. Sorry. Better luck next time.)

Whew. After all that I need more coffee.

[sternel.livejournal.com]

*hypothesis. See? I do need more coffee!

[skg.livejournal.com]

In the same vein: I was also not exterminated in Nazi Germany (having not been born yet) so does that make me a Holocaust survivor?

< /tongue in cheek>

The whole thing is the most bizarre explanation for the HP phenomenon I've ever heard.