Banning_Harry_Potter

Banning Harry Potter J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series has many positive points including the fact that it can be used to educate children and the characters can be compared to stereotypical people and situations in real life, which are merely cloaked in fantasy to disguise a classic story of good v. evil which should be accepted for what it is, a really good story. This extremely controversial series has parents and religious leaders across the world denouncing the books as evil propaganda for Satanism. Here in the United States the books have been challenged and banned in schools and public libraries with some extremists staging book burnings that resemble those held in Nazi Germany. Throughout all of this controversy children have continued to become enthralled by the harmless fantasy and magic. In her article, “Banning Books From the Classroom: How To Handle Cries For Censorship,” Sharon Cromwell uses a format that is easily understood to explain the issues involved with the challenging and banning of books. Ms. Cromwell strives to present both sides of the argument equally, and begins by presenting the issues in the statements: …advocates of banning certain books maintain that children in grades K-12 will be harmed if potter, harry, books, children, school, people, should, book, series, article, schools, about, way, parents, ms, banned, wiccan, read, freedom, cromwell, banning, public, literature, krug, challenges, witchcraft, story, states, schafer, roy, religion, out, one, materials, keep