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Find Heroes Better Than Harry Potter

I like Harry Potter. We were born the same year (he’s just 43 days older). For years, I was suspicious from a distance. Then finally, during the pandemic, I began the long journey of reading all the books aloud to my sons. Now I appreciate Harry and the whole series, and especially the deeply Christian themes of the final book.My sons like Harry too and have enjoyed some of the wholesome lessons they found at Hogwarts. But as Christian parenting goes, Harry’s a pretty low-level hero for our chil