A boy and a horse

While the sports world puts one horse down, another rises in the entertainment industry.

Parents of "Harry Potter-loving children" are complaining about new photos, of Daniel Radcliffe and a horse, that have been made public for the promotion of the play, "Equus." The story of a boy and his horse (and a certain element of bestiality) apparently doesn't sit well with those whose children prefer to imagine Mr. Radcliffe as the spell-inducing Hogwart's teenager. This becomes somewhat ironic when there are the parents who don't like their kids getting "seduced into the occult" by reading Harry Potter books and protest them; now it's the parent who defend the books, who use the "it's not real" claim, have somehow forgotten that same logic when protesting the play and its marketing!

Seems to me you can't have it both ways, or is that just a horse of a different color?