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Round 5 Goes to Harry Potter
Topic Started: May 29 2007, 03:35 PM (50 Views)
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Tuesday, May 29, 2007

(Lawrenceville, GA, a city near me) Gwinnett Superior Court Judge Ronnie Batchelor on Tuesday rejected a mother's plea to have the Harry Potter books removed from county school libraries.

Laura Mallory of Loganville lost her argument for judicial relief.

• Forum: What do you think of the ruling?


Mallory argues the "Potter" stories are harmful and promote witchcraft and the occult to young people. Supporters of the "Potter" books say they encourage children to read and should be available to all students.

She argued her position for about an hour Tuesday before Batchelor made his ruling.

"I've done the best I can with all of this," Mallory said after the hearing.

Mallory said she may now file a federal lawsuit.

Since she launched her anti-Potter crusade in 2005, Mallory has taken her case to administrators at the Loganville elementary school her children attend; to a school appeals committee; to the Gwinnett County Board of Education; and to the Georgia Board of Education. She's lost at each level.

Mallory bases her claim, in part, on testimonials and Internet articles by conservative Christian authors that she's posted on her Web site.

Mallory acknowledges she hasn't read any of the six books in the "Harry Potter" series. The seventh — and final one — is scheduled for release this summer.

I have a good friend of more than 30 years who is a conservative born again Christian, and she says Mallary dosen't give children credit for knowing the difference between fantacy and reality. I agree. do you? It's my opinion that books, movies, TV, and games, that are blamed for a child acting out is just an excuse, and that child was disturbed in the first place.
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