Okay, yeah. On your suggestion, I read some of the entries (even decided to check out the first few)... Of the first 242 "signatures", only 8 remain -- the rest have been voided as "false entries".

It's good that sensibility does, indeed, prevail.

(I still say the originator is clueless.)

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Blow shit up.

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That rocks!

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Took his fucking time... Jack Chick finally speaks out against the horror that is Harry Potter.

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**blink blink**

Tarot Cards? Ouija boards? Crystal balls?

I must have missed that part.

**rummages through his Harry Potter books**

Nope. Not here.

**scratches head**

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No tarot or ouija, but the crystal balls are in there - book four, divination classes.

Of course, saying that something in a book will automatically be taken up by any child that reads it probably exmplains the sudden deluge of youthful sleuths who popped up during the peak in popularity of Enid Blyton's Famous Five...

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Yeah, when I read those Tolkien books back in the 6th grade, I immediately ran out and got myself a Balrog and tied it out in the front yard. It was not only ungodly but dangerous.

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Ah, yes. Divination class. But if the girls wanted "Harry's Powers" then why bother with crystal balls? That was the one area he had no talent in -- he didn't believe in it. (My point is that Mr Chick obviously didn't read the books before he made this huge assumption. I did forget about the crystal ball in Divination because to me the tournament was the important part of book 4.)

Enid Blyton -- for some reason I'm remembering a series called the Secret Seven. Did she write both? Or was Secret 7 the Sorcerer's Stone of its time? :)

I remember that after I read Cujo I went right out and bought a rabid St Bernard. Interestingly, he trapped my mom in a car with my baby sister.

I miss that mutt.

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...but not as much as you miss your sister, I hope.

Enid Blyton wrote about a few number-related child-sleuth groups. The Famous Five are the most, well, famous - they got a TV series, after all. The Secret Seven were another, and she wrote one or two about the Adventurous Four.

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Don't forget The Overcrowded (Hey, Get Off My Toe!) Four Hundred Fifty Thousand, Three Hundred Seventeen.

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