Sunday, April 16, 2006

Latest "Harry Potter" protest

A mom in Gwinnett County, Ga., wants all the "Harry Potter" books taken out of the school district's libraries because they contain "evil themes, witchcraft, demonic activity, murder, evil blood sacrifice, spells and teaching children all of this." She admits she hasn't read any of the books, because (she says) they're too long, and she doesn't have time.

You can read the local newspaper's story here. An accompanying editorial notes that this mom wants the "Potter" books replaced with the "Left Behind" series.

There have been countless such anti-"Potter" challenges, most of them repeating the arguments of the countless anti-"Wizard of Oz" challenges through the generations. Which work on our syllabus, I wonder, would this mom hate the most?