[HPforGrownups] Re: Anti-Potter groups

[heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 1456



Dave Hardenbrook wrote:

>
> I think you're partly right -- I've heard at least one religious leader
> blame Columbine on Harry.  They need a scapegoat, a whipping boy,
> and Harry is the current whipping boy.  (I guess at least Filch is happy.)

This makes no sense, as Columbine was in spring 1999, and the first book had only
been out for a few months before that, and it was clear from the diaries they
wrote that they'd been planning their attack before Book 1 was ever released.
Whatever.