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Oct 4, 2006 
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As mentioned in a recent post, Laura Mallory, a mother of four from the Atlanta suburb of Loganville is trying HARD to ban the Harry Potter books from school kids. Her claims about the book border on the ridiculous to the appalling.
According to Mallory “the books by British author J.K. Rowling, sought to indoctrinate children as Wiccans, or practitioners of religious witchcraft.” She also claims that as long as these books, and others like them reside on the shelves where children can be exposed to them, we will continue to see a rise in school shootings and other violence.
I beg to differ Laura. As long as we have children who’s parents think more about themselves than they do for their children, we will continue to see things like these recent school shootings. Just turn on the TV and watch Super Nanny, Wife Swap, Trading Spouses etc and you’ll see so many overtly selfish non-parents acting like children while their little demons are attempting to kill one another, you will want to vomit.
“They’re not educationally suitable and have been shown to be harmful to some kids”, she also added that teachers don’t assign other religious books like the Bible so books like Harry Potter should not be available.
WOW… since when did a book, that stands firmly in the FICTION section of my local Barnes & Noble become a religious relic? I also challenge anyone to produce VIABLE scientific evidence that shows that reading Harry Potter is HARMFUL to children. Any book that can get a kid to sit down, relax and dive into something longer than 50 pages of pictures and 48 point type simply CAN’T be harmful to anyone.
In a slap back into Laura’s side of the court, Victoria Sweeny, an attorney representing the Gwinnett County Board of Education said that if they were to do a sweeping ban of anything that referenced witches, then stories like Cinderella, Snow White, and Macbeth would have to go away as well.
For the record, Wiccans consider themselves witches, pagans or neo-pagans, and that their religion is based on respect for the earth, nature, the cycle of the seasons as well as a respect and adoration for both men AND women.
