Aurghhhh not again!

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Date: 7/28/00 9:37 am  (ET)

Harry Potter Readings Banned

AUCKLAND (Reuters) - A New Zealand school has banned teachers from reading
aloud extracts of the resoundingly successful Harry Potter book series
after a complaint about the books' references to wizardry and magic.

Auckland's Birkenhead Primary School sent letters to parents advising
installments from a series of four books would no longer be read aloud,
but pupils could still read the books and discuss them in class, the
New Zealand Herald reported on Thursday.

One parent sent a letter to the school objecting to the ban.

``We should be encouraging children to read anything, provided it's
not porn or gratuitous violence,'' the newspaper quoted Darrin McLay
as saying.

The school principal Nigel Bioletti, would not discuss what complaints
the school had received about the books, but said the issue had been
blown out of proportion.

``It's about allowing for the differences in parents' points of view,''
he said.