I graduated from a fundamentalist Christian high school that saw Harry Potter as the biggest threat to a child?s healthy upbringing since the invention of birth control.

Picking up Harry Potter for the first time gave me a feeling I think a pre-teen might have drinking their father?s beer with a friend behind the backyard fence.

I was betraying my cultural upbringing, but the act did not result in the rejection of my faith. Instead, I found that I identified with many of the book?s values and think most people, especially Christians, should too.