Harry Potter in the News!

A curious bit of news this weekend...Harry Potter is still encountering challenging and is being removed from libraries, over a DECADE after the last book came out! This time, they books were removed from a Catholic grammar school in Nashville, based on consultation with "'several' exorcists."

Here's a story in The Guardian that sums up the events quite well.

And here's the quote I thought we might want to consider as part of our discussion today:

“These books present magic as both good and evil, which is not true, but in fact a clever deception,” Rev Dan Reehil wrote. “The curses and spells used in the books are actual curses and spells; which when read by a human being risk conjuring evil spirits into the presence of the person reading the text.”

Hmm.