User blog:VicGeorge2K9/Harry Potter and residential school

Harry Potter makes me think of my experiences of being in a residential school, that despite how awful some of those experiences were, at least I had a loving family that I could go home to and visit. Other students probably had families that were more like the Dursleys, so awful in their treatment of children who were not like them that being away in a residential school could be likened to Harry going away to Hogwarts for a school season, although not as fantastical. I could only wonder what it would be like if residential schools were run by Evangelical Pentecostals like the Assemblies of God instead of Catholics, where people actually talked of having an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ and showed it instead of just having a rather nebulous faith in a Savior shown only through religious rituals.