If You Want to Ban Harry Potter, What Do You Do with Everything Else?

Many schools have removed the Harry Potter books from their library shelves in response to a big Christian uproar about the books promoting witchcraft. Personally I don’t believe these particular people have even read the books. The books series is absolutely harmless and doesn’t promote witchcraft at all. Nowhere in the entire book does it say, “If you are reading this book you should consider making the change and become a witch or wizard.” For those of you who are for some reason unfamiliar with the Harry Potter stories, let me enlighten you a bit. It is a series of books about a boy living among regular people who finds out at the age of eleven that he is a wizard. He then goes to a school in which they teach him and other young witches and wizards how to properly use magic, all while learning about his true identity that has been hidden from him his entire life. It is a book of fiction. Let me say that again. It is a book of FICTION! Fiction means that the story is not real and was put together for the entertainment of others.

Who can honestly say that when they were a kid they never once dreamed of doing magic or having some kind of supernatural power? None of us can say that. We were all kids at one point in time and kids have one of the greatest experiences of all while they are growing. It’s called having an imagination! Who doesn’t want their children to experience the bliss of imagination? The outrage against the Harry Potter books is completely unbelievable to me and I think people should read things before coming to irrational decisions. What’s the old saying, “Don’t judge a book by its cover?” Isn’t judging something Christians aren’t suppose to do? And while you ponder that, also think about this.

If the Harry Potter books are suppose to be so bad, what about all the Disney Movies we saw growing up? Do the people who have a problem with the wizard series have a problem with Disney too? Have any of you seen Fantasia? Mickey Mouse running around as a wizard making mops dance and shooting magic from his wand doesn’t sound bad to me. It is just imagination. And what about Mary Poppins? That’s a witch if I ever saw one, but nobody is complaining. Now I don’t know what has happened to Disney movies that have been digitally remastered since the technology of DVDs, but back when there were nothing but VHS tapes Disney had some stuff that wasn’t appropriate for children’s imagination that no one said anything about.