Satan's little helper.(Harry Potter)(Brief Article)

As one occult investigator put it, J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series "conditions children to think of witchcraft as harmless and even fun. That way, when the real antichrist arrives on the scene, they will be preconditioned to accept him." The box-office success of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone has only amplified this concern.

But what do Satanists think? According to an investigation conducted by the Prospect, at least some U.S. witches and Satanists do indeed find Harry familiar. "I don't want to give them any more ammunition," says Jo Frost, a witch from the Church and School of Wicca in West Virginia. Still Frost, who has read all four Harry Potter novels, admits that Rowling's series "makes more people curious about witchcraft."

Peter Gilmore, the high priest of the Church of Satan, says that while he's never finished one of Rowling's books, he's knows the series ...