The Harry Potter picture is a great opportunity. When you say, "Harry Potter is not God", you are making it sound like the icon of Christ is God. Orthodox may not think that, but people who do not understand icons will not understand what you meant by that. It is true that most Americans do not understand the meaning of icons. Hence, they need a better explanation. However, most Orthodox don't understand icons either. I would throw a fit if you tried placing it in an Orthodox Church. How many times have people tried bringing pictures into a church, then placed them in front of the icon of Christ for a Memorial Service? We obviously need to explain things to Orthodox as well. The drawing of Harry Potter is something we can use to reach out to Americans. Harry Potter's face is placed in the icon, instead of Christ. When we do not reflect Christ into the world, we are doing exactly what the image of Harry Potter does. We are replacing the image of God with the image of ourselves. This is a picture of antichrist. We Should seize this opportunity to explain to the world the Orthodox perspective. We seek to reflect Christ into the world. Most Americans think of antichrist as a single person. The "anti" in antichrist does not mean against. It means instead of. We should explain to people that when we reflect ourselves instead of Christ, that makes us antichrist, just like in the Harry Potter picture. Have we reflected Christ into the world instead of ourselves? We are the living icons of Christ.We should be immensely more upset at our defilement of the living image of God, than we are at the defilement of a piece of paper. When I saw the picture and read the email from my dad, my first thought was: "how are non-Orthodox going to view our response?" I also thought, " wow! I should be ashamed of myself. I am Orthodox, and I reflect my own image to the world instead of the image of Christ. I have nothing to say to the guy who drew this. He replaced the image of God on paper. I have defiled the image of God in myself. Do my actions reflect even a faint image of Christ?" I challenge everyone to look at the image. Look at how awkward it seems, and then look at yourself. If only I could see how awkward I look. If only I could point out all the ways that I have destroyed the icon of Christ inside me. Please, remember the icon of Christ we use is a tool, one which we use to remind us of what we are supposed to look like. Our focus should be on the image of Christ in ourselves, and how we reflect that into the world.