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you are the ~Magick~~, Evan Austin,

and Jessie blossoming, baby *pop*-ing!

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that electric being, whom within thee breaths ...

the river-life connecting/revealing our ALL 'unseen'!

I believe in magic, the clear magic the real Harry Potter represents, not the black magic of corporate magicians making big bucks off a gullible public while distracting them from reality. The Romans called it circuses for the masses to make imperial power acceptable.

I am only fifty-two, so I don't have the perspective of someone born in the early 20th century -- to have witnessed the massive 180 degree and 360 degree change-abouts in political 'ethics' and 'determinism'. Did not witness first-hand the orchestration by the Aristocracy of a *Military-Industrial War* between Germany-Japan and North America and the UK -- whose only purpose was to create a transcendent automotive/aircraft industrial world and attendant trained slave force.

Now, of course, living through the mis-named 'Cold War', then their 911 'Surprise' of total US Industrial Fascism, to witness the, again, TOTALITY of the psycho-programming by the left and the right -- to DEMAND our belief in and support of the INDUSTRIAL war against truth and planet and people, against all life -- well I can almost hear my grandparents and their friends, my teachers, saying "We told ya, mate", adding the UK dialect ...

This episode, number five, of the Harry Potter series is the loneliest and darkest of the series -- with the ONLY light being when the victimized students, the lower classes of the 'Wizard Society' school, must against TOTAL media propaganda and government fascist intervention [EXACTLY as today in the US] create their own secret classroom to teach themselves the truth of the universal violence of government and media and evil aristocracy, and how to defend themselves from it!

And, again -- as in today in our global campaign to bring on global decision-making and thus global solutions to the murder of the ecosphere and servitude of all peoples -- the only magic and power the good and the children have at their disposal is that of discipline, cultivation, understanding, respect, comradery, family. 'Love' in a word. Believing in the good within themselves and ALL peoples, including the wicked children of the aristocracy with whom they are schooled, learning the intended 'pecking order' of class and caste, learning the difference between acting and believing, between the truth and manipulation.

Teachings which are NOT INCLUDED in the media and curriculum of North Americans -- which, again, only in love and light, in connecting and listening and hearing in peace and respect, can we find.

Only world ... wide!

Thanks, MT, for the comment. I begin to see the light in the childrens' eyes, and to appreciate the film as a metaphor for our times. Love is the spark to ignite the fire that will illumine the darkness. Love, Dennis.

Harry Potter said: "I just feel SO ANGRY all the time! And what if, after everything I've been through, something's gone wrong inside me? What if I'm becoming bad?"

I want you to listen to me VERY carefully, Harry. You are not a bad person, you are a very good person who bad things have happened to. You understand?

Besides, the world isn't divided into good people and death-eaters, we've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we chose to act on. That's who we really are.

one of the few notes i took during the film:

"we've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on."

thank you, Sirius, and R.I.P.

"i think there are people who believe in some type of literal (though not Hollywood-glitzy) magic, ........ ........ ........... i think that’s okay, and i think it plays to the idea of nurturing the child within us all...to allow ourselves to believe in mysterious things [without creating rigid dogmatic structures around them] and to maintain a sense of wonder about the world around us, to recognize that other things are possible than what we currently see and experience. that’s a very hopeful energy, and in a world where we desperately and increasingly need the creativity and freedom to explore and change our ways of being (presuming, of course, that we expect to survive as a species), retaining those abilities is a beautiful, magical thing indeed."

This is one of the most profound statements I have read in a long time.

I've cofounded a performance chant band which intends to prime the pump of imaginations... http://radarsherpa.blogspot.com/

I find Harry Potter to be a good Fictional story that has nothing to do really with real world events. Unles of course you add your own illusion of opinion to it. Movies entertain and thoughts spun from them stir creation from within.

perhaps there's an "art imitates life" argument here, Alien. try to tell me that the Daily Prophet's (the wizards' newspaper) wholesale promotion of the Ministry of Magic's every imposed belief without doing any journalism or asking critical questions is not pulled directly from U.S. (and much World) media cheerleading for war without investigating or being critical of the government claims being made. i dont think that's me projecting my "illusion of opinion"...it's right there as plain as day. tell me that Fudge's (the Minister of Magic) stubborn, facts-be-damned insistence that the Dark Lord had NOT returned - and being willing to punish and imprison anyone who thinks otherwise - is not reminiscent of certain world leaders that we know who refuse to change course or allow their own perceptions of reality to evolve. tell me that Umbridge's (the Ministry operative sent to take over the school) use of illegal interrogation methods and her line of "the question my practices is to question the Ministry...and by extension, the Minister himself!" doesnt smack of...

you get the point. movies entertain BECAUSE they are relatable on some level. in Order of the Phoenix, it's the dark politics we can relate to.

Seventy seven million dollars was the estimate for this last weekend's take from the H.P. movie. Now thats magic.

for those Aliens that do not know it, the Harry Potter series was written by Jo K. Rawlings, OBE -- and distributed and promoted worldwide by the United Kingdom. call it the equivalent of the global British propaganda campaign of the Beatles forty years ago ...

Last night, I made a grand attempt to watch Harry Potter's latest adventure. Downtown Century 10 had a last show for the day starting at 9:45 PM. I arrived early and my nightmare soon began. Beginning at 9:30 PM, the commercials began, one after the other. They were adverts for tv shows. Bad tv shows. after 20 minutes, the next set of commercials began - these were all movie commercials - bad c movie trailers. Each one led me to cringe, cringe cringe. I began to watch my watch, praying to anyone or anything to bring this nightmare I'd paid 10 dollars for to end. When my watch said 10:10 PM and there were still commercials rolling, my exhaustion, frustration and indignation had concluded into action. I left theatre number 2, spoke with a manager. He was very sweet and understanding and immediatley granted my refund request.

In conclusion, I will not be going to many movie theatres anymore. Wake up distribitors! You are losing coustomers..

reminds me of the first time I went to the cinema in Aotearoa, Land of the Long White Cloud ... not only were we plied with bad commercials, we were the subject of government mandated 'educational' films ... these almost always involved 'crazed' teens in massive drinking mode killing their mates or other innocents in driving accidents.

very telling and true Down-Under, but not happy moviegoing ...