A Defense of Harry Potter

This is a defense of Harry Potter that I wrote for my grandmother. Apparantly she shared it with some of the people in her mission and her "boss" liked it a lot. Anyway, I figured I'd post it.

As for the "dark tones" and "magic", yes, they exist but it's not in a bad way. There is magic, sorcery, witches and wizards, but it's important to remember that the story is not real. The series does not promote witchcraft or magic in any way; it uses a magical world as a means of telling an entertaining story of the fight between good and evil. The story is a fantasy, but the themes, such as loyalty, compassion, bravery, hard work, love, friendship, conviction and helping others, are real. In the series there are some "dark" scenes, but there are in the real world too. Harry is a teenager who suffers from angst and loss. He is not perfect, he has his flaws. He does, however, try to overcome those flaws. I'm not quite sure what you mean by "dark tones". If you mean that Harry thinks the world is awful and that everyone should die, he doesn't. He gets angry when the government essentially becomes an oppressive dictatorship reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution. He does, at times, want others (such as the ones who killed his parents or other people) to die, but the only death caused by Harry (so far) is that of a monstrous snake that was killing students. Harry has angsty days, just like everyone else. People say the books are getting darker, but Harry's conflict with Voldemort is really just becoming more serious and Harry is becoming more independent. The books encourage people to be good and do good things, to be thier best and better.
As for the nightmares, the only nightmares I've had relating to Harry Potter are about us getting ripped off when the seventh book comes out. No, hang on, I also had a dream that I was a Harry Potter character and I came home from Hogwarts and had no friends and my (the character's) dad was a drunk, my (the character's) mother was dead and my (the character's) brother set the house on fire. But nothing like that happens in the books, so I think I just have an overactive imagination.
My testimony has not been diminished at all by reading Harry Potter. It's startling, actually, when you read your daily dose the Book of Mormon and then read some Harry Potter and Dumbledore says something almost exactly that Nephi said. The Book of Mormon basically says that Jesus is the Christ, good will triumph over evil in the end and that we should be good people. Harry Potter says that we should be good people and the good will triumph over evil. If something encourages you to be a better person, then I say it's good. Harry Potter does that.