[HPFGU-OTChatter] Bookburnings of Harry Potter

[Richelle Votaw]

Drusilla wrote:

> Now my question is: is this something you are confronted with, too?
> And to what extend? Or is this something the media pushes up and
> these things are only curiosities which do not usually happen?

It does happen around the US, but it is generally not a very large crowd for
a HP book burning, and it really is as you say something the media overdoes.
I live in Louisiana, and someone in New Orleans tried to organize a book
burning on June 21st, but didn't get any interest.  Ha!  :)  I've get some
surprise when I say I love Harry Potter, particularly to people in church,
but I've never had any negative feelings about it.  The closest was when I
was writing something in a HP notepad and someone (a very, er, ditsy girl)
said, "Oh, shame on you."  I just looked at her and said "Have you read it?"
"No."  "Then don't knock it till you try it."  That shut her up.  I've won
several middle of the road sort of people over by throwing Christian
symbolisms in HP in their face until their mouths hang open.  I love the
response. :)

Now, back to book burnings.  There really are very few, and they are
drastically blown out of proportion by the media.  And most (not all, but
most) people are against them simply because a) there are worse things
available to the general public and b) people should be able to read what
they want, this is America after all. Which of course means people can also
burn what they want, unfortunately.

The Holocaust museum in Washington D.C. used pictures from a Harry Potter
book burning in New Mexico as part of a 10th anniversary exhibit for the
museum, equating it with the Nazi book burnings.

Richelle