Vatican newspaper praises values in new Harry Potter film???

The Vatican newspaper gave the new Harry Potter movie four stars for promoting “friendship, altruism, loyalty and self-giving.” As “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” was set to open worldwide July 15, L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, once again downplayed concerns that the film and book series by J.K. Rowling promote magic and witchcraft. “Certainly, Rowling’s vision lacks a reference to transcendence, to a providential design in which people live their personal histories and history itself takes shape,” the paper said in its July 14 edition. But, it said, the new film and the books make clear “the line of demarcation between one who does good and one who does evil, and it is not difficult for the reader or the viewer to identify with the first.”