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Hogwarts School of Prayer and Miracles by Grace Ann Parsons
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** spoiler alert ** If this is actually satire, then I would rate this much higher. It's an excellent parody of fundamentalist evangelical Christianity in the United States and an exposé of its hypocritical and extreme beliefs.

In this fan-fiction, Harry Potter is living with the Durseleys who are stereotyped as radical atheists who believe in every word of "the Dawkins". Hagrid, to whom the author appears to be transferring her repressed sexual desires with descriptions of his "manly chest hair", comes and converts Harry to Christianity in a matter of seconds and the "little one" (as the author is so prone to call her child protagonists) is instantly a biblical scholar. They go to the titular Hogwarts School of Prayer and Miracles where the Reverend Dumbledore (who is married to Minerva and whose daughter is a completely OOC Hermione) introduces Harry to the power of magic prayer and miracles, which involve God opening doors and providing the students with bacon (and less for the girls, of course!). Ron is a Slytherin, this universe's equivalent of Catholics, who are portrayed as a crazy death cult. Luna is a Hufflepuff, the equivalent of the more liberal branches of Christianity and Draco is a Ravenclaw, some sort of even more extreme fundamentalist church. Harry's time at Hogwarts involves a prayer battle with Draco, religious conversions, meeting Dean Thomas (to whom the author always refers by his first name and with some epithet emphasizing his "proper" behavior), and praying to 'save' Voldemort, who is a troll on Reddit who the "protagonists" believe is planning to ban Christianity.

Overall, this is a bizarre Harry Potter trollfic in the tradition of "My Immortal" and is worth the read if you're bored and entertained by satire of religion. Reader beware: the grammar and lexicon of the author are atrocious!
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Reading Progress

April 2, 2018 – Started Reading
April 4, 2018 – Finished Reading
April 20, 2018 – Shelved

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