LAWRENCEVILLE — The “Harry Potter” book series may soon be taken off the shelves of all media centers in Gwinnett County Public Schools if a parent’s appeal is successful.
A parent of students at J.C. Magill Elementary School filed appeal forms for each of the books, requesting the wildly popular series be removed from public school libraries.
On the forms, she wrote that she objected to the series’ “evil themes, witchcraft, demonic activity, murder, evil blood sacrifice, spells and teaching children all of this.”
She wrote she had not read the series because it is long, and she is a working mother of four.
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Another hyper-sensitive parent with her nose in other people's business. Harry Potter books aren't being used as textbooks. They are optional reading available in the schools libraries. I support her right to forbid her kids to read them, but that's where her right should end. I think the Harry Potter series is great for kids.
If she would read some books instead of wasting her precious moments of spare time filing idiotic claims with the school library she might not be such a fucking moron.
Unfortunatly this lunacy isn't restricted to America. Back here in the Netherlands I experienced a similar thing as a kid.
You are an idiot. An idiot who listens to other idiots. Can you pull your head out of your ass and stop interfering with other people?
I was under the impression that the evil blood "sacrifice" in book four was generally viewed as being a BAD thing, seeing as, you know, it brought back the evil (and, depending upon the definition, demonic) Lord Voldemort from his nebulous not-dead-but-not-alive state.
NKF.
Shell and Rosie, great comments both!
These types of morons aren't going to go away soon. Unfortunately there are far too many people willing to surrender their capacity for independant thought to their churches and ministers, duped into thinking this will guarantee them a place in Heaven.
you know, when I (eventually) get a novel published, I'm going to post about it on the fundy pages. That way, people will get pissed and try to ban it. Instant publicity!
"She wrote she had not read the series because it is long, and you know, had words, and ideas that she had been taught not to encounter"
Someone already beat me to the Narnia comment. How about Lord of the Rings, too? If they're so concerned about their children reading about this stuff, why doesn't their focus ever seem to move away from Harry Potter?
Ummm, exactly what part of the bible doesn't contain evil themes?
Harry Potter contains valuable lessons about friendship, trust, honesty, and standing up for what you believe. If NA took the time to find this out, she probably wouldn't have started her legal action.
Trust the fundies not to be able to tell the difference between reality and fiction.
I hope whatever disease affecting Americans doesn't spill over their borders, what a herd of parochial idiots
"evil themes, witchcraft, demonic activity, murder, evil blood sacrifice, and teaching children all of this.”
Yeah, it's far better to teach them about the exact same things in your bible. Note that your bible will also cover additional things for them to learn like slavery, rape, incest, genocide, and human sacrifice.
The Harry Potter series is about an orphaned boy, who is bullied throughout his earlier childhood, then learns about his true identity, and find friendship for the first time in his life. He's a remarkably selfless young man (according to his favorite teacher), who does everything for his friends, even sacrifices himself so that they can live, and comes back to life in time to kill the Big Bad.
My mother was a working mother of four too, and she, or my father (who was a working father of four, incidentally...), read us a bed-time story almost every night of our childhood, until we were old enough to read for ourselves and didn't like the childish stories the younger siblings wanted. If HP had been around then, they would have read them to us and, simultaneously, to themselves.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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