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Friday, May 12, 2006
Potter Wins Duel Against Witch and Missionary Duo
Harry Potter has won a real life duel against a local Georgia witch (ex-witch) and a local missionary mother.
Starting last fall Laura Mallory(left), a local missionary and mother, attempted to have the Harry Potter series removed from the shelves of all Gwinnett County, Georgia schools.
Her efforts culminated in a hearing before the board of education on May 20, 2006. During this hearing Mallory partnered with several other members of the community ,including an reformed Wiccan witch, brought claims that the Potter series was 'evil', against her religion, and most plausible contained graphic violence and adult themes unsuitable for grade school children.
A teenage ex-witch working with Mallory claimed to have seen spells from the Harry Potter books actually work and cause the death of one person, cancer in another and the burning of a family home. In tears she described how Harry Potter had ruined her life and that of her family.
This was followed by parents and teachers representing the opposition to keep Harry Potter describing how the series had fostered a desire to read in thousands of Gwinnett County school children and to ban the books would cause harm to children and their educational development.
Last night the Gwinnett County Board of Education decided to keep the books on the shelf.
Laura Mallory has previously stated that she would take the issue to the State of Georgia if necessary.
On a lighter side - Harry Potter was not available for comment and no press releases on the matter have been forthcoming from the Ministry of Magic.
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These people are crazy I tell you, CRAZY !!! To even consider that these books have any real negative effect on todays society is ludicrous. Evil indeed !!!
If anything, apart from encouraging the youth of today to take up reading rather than picking up a gun, they instill positive virtues of loyalty, friendship, hard work, perserverance under the harshest conditions, love, honour and empathy.
It's typical of these religious do-gooders to misread (if they have actually read the books at all) the underlying positive messages that these books instill in children.
Some people have WAY to much free time on their hands!
Be happy your child is reading and not glued to the TV watching material that is much worse than Harry Potter.
Is it me or have forgot the definition of FICTION?
Allison, I agree with you. The group of teachers and parents and children fighting to keep the books in the school system brought up this point at the hearing.
A 5th grader testified that it was fiction and she understood what fiction was (not surprising this part), but she was sitting next to the 16-17 year old high school student who didn't know the difference and had claimed to witness working Harry Potter spells cast by her 'wicca' friends.
In tears as she described how Harry Potter ruined her life and that of her families? I couldn't help but laugh when I read that. If they are even dumb enough to think that magic from a children's book is real, well... I just hope these people don't breed.