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

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Maybe they're right. After all, if you were born after abortion was legal (I wasn't, my brother was) you have at least some more assurance that your parents wanted you. Wouldn't that give you a bit more kinship with Harry, whose parents loved and wanted him so much and yet couldn't stay with him?

(I'm pretty sure this isn't what O'Brien is getting at. On the other hand I have noticed that people who are parents now seem in many ways to be emotionally closer to their kids than almost anyone I remember from my youth or have heard about from older times. You yourself are a prime example. No, I *don't* think this is because the parents had the option of abortion - but if up against Mr. O'Brian, I might enjoy setting forth that argument.)