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NO! NO! A thousand times NO!

Ban Illiteracy - Don't ban reading Harry Potter!

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“Congress Shall Make No Law Respecting an Establishment of Religion, or Prohibiting the Free Exercise Thereof; or Abridging the Freedom of Speech, or of the Press; or the Right of the People Peaceably to Assemble, and To Petition the Government for a Redress of Grievances.” - First Amendment

The freedom to read is about choice and respecting the right of others to choose for themselves and their families what they wish to read. Book banning and challenging has a domino effect. If we stand quietly by and let the first book come off the shelf, we run the risk they all will come tumbling down. A true democracy allows free people to read freely.

Judith Krug, director of the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom

From the Catechism of the
Catholic Church and the Code of Canon Law

"God created man a rational being, conferring on him the dignity of a person who can
initiate and control his own actions." (1730, Catechism).

The code which states that the age of reason is a person who has
completed seven years of age is specifically quoted.

Books cannot MAKE a person do anything. We do not negate our intellect nor our free will when we read.

Paula S.W. Laurita, LMS, St. John's Catholic School
Madison, Alabama

In the Harry Potter books:

Good wins over Evil (like in all the fairytales)

Harry is a great role model: He is kind, generous, sharing, helps build self-esteem in others. He is confident and stands up for what is right. He makes the right decisions.

Most of the students at Hogwarts show great respect and admiration for the wiser and older wizards.

The students DO their homework!

This book does not teach witchcraft or wizardry to the reader. It is FICTION. It is a STORY. If it taught witchcraft or wizardry, it would be NON-FICTION, without a storyline.

The British versions let the reader experience another culture which include idioms, spelling, colloquialisms, grammar, money systems and much more.

It is neither gender nor racially biased.

Harry is empathetic towards those who are weak, or hurt.

The readers know who the good guy is and who the bad guy is.

ALA's site on Challenged Materials

Banned Books Week

Culture and Religion - great resource!

In the real world:

We (children, young adults, adults) are READING!

We are helping to rid our world of illiteracy!

The TV and Computer games are getting turned off!

We are allowing our imaginations to work!