Scholastic Books offers spell-casting primer for kids

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Scholastic Books offers spell-casting primer for kids

Kids who are eagerly awaiting the publication of the fifth book of 
the Harry Potter series and are looking for other, similar books to 
read while they wait can go to the Harry Potter page of the website 
of Scholastic Books, the publisher of the Harry Potter series in the 
United States, and click on links to other Scholastic pages devoted 
to similar topics. One such Potter link is: 

http://www.scholastic.com/titles/twitches/magick.asp

Here, they can click on the "Magickal Tips Archive" to get advice on 
how to cast spells. These spells are not comical fabrications by J. 
K. Rowling, which we are told have no connection to real witchcraft, 
but are a kids' version of the spells employed by Wicca and other 
witchcraft ritual-performing religious groups.  Scholastic's Harry 
Potter page, in contrast, also has a spell-writing section, but it is 
based on the invented spells in the Harry Potter series.

Manita Christiansen