Parlementary ideas invariably evinced that most thoroughgoing national miserabilism which had impressed poor Damiens ….

And all his literary life Dickens had the vision of the boy who was given the key of the street when other boys are at school.

Ah, said he, thou hast confessed and bewrayed all, I could teem it to rend thee in pieces

At the root of it is Wiccaphobia -- I think many extremists (not all of them Christians) fear the Wicca/Neopagan movement, and I fear they've made Harry their scapegoat.