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	Harry Potter Spell
		In addition to thousands of children showing the symptoms of the Harry Potter Spell, many adults, from college to middle age, have shown and are spreading this enthusiasm to their peers, coworkers, and families.
		In the case of Harry Potter, there was no need for the press to generate a big hype, because the children of Britain, Canada, and the United States magically created Harry Potter mania on their own.
		The hope these people and others who love the original Harry Potter stories have is that the books, in all their wonder, will continue to have a lasting impression, similar to the one they have today, on readers both young and old.
	www.louisville.edu /~mwsims01/harrypotter.html (4401 words)

	Harry Potter
		Harry James Potter is a fictional character and protagonist of a series of fantasy novels by J.
		Harry was orphaned[?] on October 31, 1981, when the evil Lord Voldemort murdered his parents.
		Harry was put under the supervison of his Muggle (nonmagical person) relatives, namely his mother's sister Petunia and her husband Vernon Dursley.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ha/Harry_Potter.html (1090 words)

	Harry Potter censorship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Harry Potter books were number seven on the American Library Association's list of the 100 most frequently challenged books of 1990-2000.
		The official exorcist of Rome, Father Gabriele Amorth, believes that the Harry Potter books can be a bad influence on some children by getting them interested in the occult (see Christian views on witchcraft).
		The book The Hidden Key to Harry Potter: Understanding the Meaning, Genius, and Popularity of Joanne Rowling's Harry Potter Novels (ISBN 0972322108), written by John Granger, a Reader in the Orthodox Church, claims to uncover Christian themes in its analysis of the story.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harry_Potter_censorship (679 words)

	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer
		Censorship: Rowling’s Harry Potter series is another example of a work that has drawn fire from censors, not for its representation of sexuality, but instead, because it is about witchcraft and magic, which has upset some Christian parents, and also because Harry’s universe is filled with violence and scary things.
		Harry has a brush with the school bully, Draco Malfoy, a victory in Quidditch, and learns his most valuable lessons outside of the classroom, often when defying the authority of his teachers and going on illicit adventures throughout the grounds.
		Harry has always suspected he was different, and is certainly treated that way by the abusive Dursleys, who make him sleep in the cupboard under the stairs, dress him in Dudley's cast off clothing, and don't even celebrate his birthday.
	www.lsu.edu /faculty/jpullia/harrypotter.htm (2696 words)

	ipedia.com: Harry Potter Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The first novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (released as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the United States) was released in 1997.
		The Harry Potter books are primarily aimed at older children, but have fans of all ages.
		Harry Potter and the Kidney Stone, by Desmond Devlin, illustrated by James Warhola.
	www.ipedia.com /harry_potter.html (2011 words)

	Harry Potter - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Harry James Potter is a fictional character and protagonist of a series of fantasy novels by J.
		Harry was orphaned on October 31, 1981, when the evil Lord Voldemort murdered his parents.
		Harry was put under the supervision of his Muggle (non-magical person) relatives, namely his mother's sister Petunia and her husband Vernon Dursley.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Harry_Potter (1630 words)

	Harry Potter
		In the same way, I would suggest that handing a Harry Potter book to a child to read on his own is the spiritual equivalent of sending a child out to play in the street.
		Harry's invisibility cloak should be pointed out as make-believe, but God is always and true-ly with us even though He's invisible.
		The Harry Potter books have a lot going for them, but there is potential spiritual danger in the way they make witchcraft so appealing to some people.
	www.leaderu.com /popculture/harrypotter.html (1337 words)

	The Smoke Signal
		Riding on his Firebolt, Harry Potter has flown from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and crash-landed into the homes of of both children and adults arcoss America and Britain.
		Harry also manages to find time to save the world from the evil Lord Voldemort in each one of his adventures.
		The Goblets of Fire,which portrays Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts, is like its predecessors in that the protagonist confronts a conflict with another character (such as his arch nemesis Draco Malfoy) and survives a life-threatening encounter with the Dark Lord.
	www.msjhs.org /smokesignal/october/flying.htm (278 words)

	Harry Potter Censorship Quotations File (Site not responding. Last check: )
		One of the themes running through all the Potter books, which comes into full flower in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, is a clear attack on racial purity.
		If Harry Potter presents children - and the rest of us - with a tantalizing vision of Misrule and the world turned upside down, let's try to understand why we don't like parts of the world in which we live now.
		A federal judge ordered Harry Potter books back onto an Arkansas school district's library shelves Tuesday, rejecting a moronic and highly adorable school board's claim that tales of wizards and spells could harm school children, push occult messages, and prompt children to disobey authority.
	www.angelfire.com /scifi/dreamweaver/quotes/qtpotterian.html (813 words)

	Death by Harry Potter - Esquire
		Somebody at a steakhouse recently told me that Harry Potter doesn't die at the conclusion of the seventh book (and that this detail was important), but I wasn't even aware he was sick.
		In fact, if somebody told me that the final Harry Potter novel was a coded interpretation of the Koran that instructed its readers how to read my thoughts, I could only respond by saying, "Well, maybe so." For whatever reason, this is one phenomenon that I have missed completely (and mostly, I suppose, on purpose).
		Harry Potter will be the only triviality that most of that coming culture will unilaterally share.
	www.esquire.com /features/chuck-klostermans-america/klosterman1107 (1646 words)

	Julie Alonso's Portfolio: 1A-- Censorship and Harry Potter
		This censorship has not always taken the form of book banning, but rather sometimes comes from the authors and editors themselves, steering clear of topics that are taboo in order to avoid controversy.
		Censorship attempts are commonly made on textbooks because of the fact that these are the books that the children are using and learning from in classrooms.
		Muggles for Harry Potter, the Web site originally built by the students in Zeeland Michigan, continued to encourage fans of the series to report censorship efforts in their areas so that they could be contested (muggle is the word Rowling uses in the series to denote a non-magic person).
	juliesportfolio.blogspot.com /2007/04/1a-censorship-and-harry-potter.html (4624 words)

	The Lair of Fang-Face DreamWeaver: Study of censorship and free speech: Appendix B (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For example, in the first book of the series, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry is introduced to "Nearly Headless Nick" whose head was almost severed once and therefore can be flipped "...back onto his neck." Harry also learns his parents did not die in a car accident, but were blown up and murdered.
		Harry is best loved and helped by the occult characters rather than the human family to whom he's related.
		In addition to teachers reading Harry's adventures aloud, a growing number of principals around the country are also approving long term fantasy projects in which their students are asked to come to school dressed as witches and wizards or play games assuming those roles.
	www.angelfire.com /scifi/dreamweaver/bannedbks/censorpotter.html (6722 words)

	Harry Potter Web :: http://www.harrypotterweb.com
		Harry Potter is the informal name given to a collection of fantasy novels by J. Rowling, and the movies based on them.
		The Harry Potter books are primarily aimed at older children, but have fans of all ages, as demonstrated by the publication of editions of each book with more mature cover artwork.
		Harry is expected to leave the school in mid-1998, at age 17 — supposing, of course, that he lives to do so (as Rowling likes to remind her readers when asked about Harry's career after school).
	www.harrypotterweb.com (2490 words)

	Quillblog » Harry Potter
		Billionaire Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling would feel “exploited” if a fan’s unofficial encyclopedic companion to the boy wizard series was published, she said in court papers made public on Thursday.
		Harry Potter may be approaching his grand finale but he may still have something to learn from an older master of magic.
		Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has, for the past 16 weeks, looked to be the invincible champion of the bestseller lists, despite being more than three months away from publication.
	www.quillandquire.com /blog/index.php/category/harry-potter (7631 words)

	PRESS RELEASES
		The rationale and debate over censorship varies from century to century and from genre to genre, but one of the most volatile fields of biblio-censorship is the in the area of children's literature.
		The Harry Potter series follows the story of a young boy, Harry Potter, whose parents are killed by the evil sorcerer Voldemort.
		Harry narrowly escapes Voldemort's attempt to kill him also, and carries a lightning shaped scar on his forehead from the battle.
	www.flashpapers.com /main/press-releases/harry-potter-and-censorhip/harry-potter-and-censorship-1.html (933 words)

	Harry Potter - Archive Collection - TIME
		Happily, a few chapters into J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, which Scholastic Press published last September, our hero receives a letter via owl informing him that he is, in fact, a famous wizard and has won a place at the prestigious Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
		And with that, the reader and Harry together are plopped down into a world every bit as fantabulous and vividly original as those created by C.S. Lewis, Roald Dahl or, for that matter, George Lucas.
		Harry Potter is an orphan whose parents were killed by the evil sorcerer Voldemort when Harry was a baby...He finds another family in his professors and the students Ron and Hermione at Hogwarts, a school for young wizards.
	www.time.com /time/archive/collections/0,21428,c_harry_potter,00.shtml (871 words)

	Harry Potter
		Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the United States) was released in
		The Harry Potter series are among the most frequently challenged from 1998 to present.
		The Leaky Cauldron (http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/): Harry Potter news weblog
	www.geocities.com /hofanlo/Harry_Potter.htm (1861 words)

	Harry Potter - The Controversy - Christian Perspective
		Along comes HARRY POTTER, which has raised the eyebrows of many, the conscience of most, and the admiration of some, and the attention of the kids for sure.
		My opinion, which is mine alone, is that Harry Potter isn't as harmless as he seems, and could possibly draw a child into things he/she didn't understand - especially, if they aren't well grounded in the Word, and grown up enough to withstand pressure from siblings, that would turn them in the wrong direction.
		Harry Potter and Dungeons and Dragons:Like Peas in a Pod?
	www.entourages.com /barbs/harrypotter.htm (635 words)

	The Magic of Harry Potter
		In 1997, she received a grant from the Scottish Arts Council and Bloomsbury published the first Harry Potter book under the title "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" in Britain in 1997.
		Certainly, the fourth coming of Harry Potter was the talk of BookExpo America, the huge publishing convention held last month in Chicago.
		The American Booksellers Association was pushing its "Muggles for Harry Potter" campaign to battle so-far unsuccessful censorship efforts by groups in several states who have objected to the books' depictions of magic and witchcraft.
	www.azstarnet.com /harrypotter2/0706potterb.html (1315 words)

	Harry Potter
		Harry Potter is the informal name given to a collection of fantasy novels by J.
		The first novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (released as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the United States) was released in 1997.
		Harry Potter rules and iam the biggest fan of the series..all those who say it is not good are really mad peeps...
	www.asuku.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=1658 (1873 words)

	Where's the next Harry Potter Book?
		Since the first Potter book, the nation's book shelves have been bursting with wizard and fantasy novels that are unrivaled in thickness and wordiness.
		Those same youngsters, however, were the first generation of test-takers to be raised in a culture had been devouring Harry Potter books since the day they were born—nine years.
		My favorite anecdote/research on the Potter impact can be found in this report: Two medical researchers monitored children's admissions to British hospital emergency rooms during a three-year period, including the two weekends in which books five and six in the Potter series were released.
	www.trelease-on-reading.com /whatsnu_potter.html (762 words)

	The Ethos of Harry Potter: Art, Influence, Delight
		Harry Potter, see magic as the source of power in the novels, but I will argue that while the wizardry adds an element of fun and fantasy to the book, it actually has little tangible value for the characters.
		In addition to featuring in six books with his name on them, Harry Potter and his friends have appeared in four full-length feature films (with a fifth currently in progress) and on the covers of Time, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, and even Mad magazines.
		Harry Potter ” addresses this question through applying current genre theory to Rowling’s series, and argues that the overwhelming success of the series can be traced to Rowling’s incorporation of not only mainstream genres such as fantasy, adventure, and epic but also popular genres such as pulp fiction, detective stories, gothic literature, and sports tales.
	www.uiowa.edu /~mmla/abstracts2006/EthosofHarryPotter.htm (1111 words)

	Harry Potter
		While Harry Potter is globally famous and popular, there is also a violent controversy raging around the books, with various groups attempting to censor, or ban, the books, while other groups fight for the right for students to have access to the books.
		Harry Potter's Realm of Wizardry - information about the books, characters and the movies; fan fiction, artwork, games, history and legends, and a Harry Potter Store.
		Harry Potter - Culture and Religion - an excellent resource for newspaper and journal articles written about the Harry Potter phenomenon, including the controversy over Harry Potter books.
	www.21stcenturyschools.com /Harry_Potter.htm (792 words)

	Category:Harry Potter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This category is part of WikiProject Harry Potter, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to the Harry Potter universe.
		If you would like to participate, you can choose to edit the articles attached to this category, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.
		The fictional universe portrayed in the Harry Potter books and films.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Harry_Potter (123 words)

	Harry Potter: What Does God Have To Say
		Children are obsessed with the Harry Potter books that they have left television and video games to read these witchcraft manuals.
		The first book of the series, entitled "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone", finds the orphan, Harry Potter, embarking into a new realm when he is taken to "Hogwart’s School of Witchcraft and Wizardry." At this occult school, Harry Potter learns how to obtain and use witchcraft equipment.
		Harry also learns a new vocabulary, including words such as "Azkaban", "Circe", "Draco", "Erised", "Hermes", and "Slytherin"; all of which are names of real devils or demons.
	www.lasttrumpetministries.org /tracts/tract7.html (1247 words)

	Censorship & Children's Books, p.1
		Though an ardent fan of the Potter series, Zimmerman cautions against knee-jerk reactions to all censor-groups, based upon the valid claims of other groups throughout the history of the American classroom.
		was a powerful advocate for "appropriate" censorship within the television industry as it grew increasingly violent and vulgar during the 80's and 90's.
		If your community ever faces a protest over Harry Potter books, the Association of American Publishers and the National Coalition Against Censorship (www.ncac.org) built an excellent site (Muggles for Harry Potter— www.mugglesforharrypotter.org) that explores the issues and mechanisms for coping with such protests.
	www.trelease-on-reading.com /censor1.html (1595 words)

	I Love Libraries - Protecting one of our nations most important resources
		In 1999, I'd yet to read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone when a South Carolina librarian reported that parents were seeking to remove the book from school libraries and classroom.
		Even so, the campaign to keep the Harry Potter series out of the hands of children continues, led most recently by a Gwinnett County, Ga., mother who believes the series is an "evil" attempt to indoctrinate children in the Wicca religion.
		I believe, in fact, that what some parents and adults find most threatening about the Potter series is what engages young minds and fires the imagination of young people- Rowling's willingness to deal with the truth that adults in children's lives can sometimes be unthinking, authoritarian, and even evil.
	www.ilovelibraries.org /news/topstories/potteroped.cfm (573 words)

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