Censors Trying to Ban Book About Teen Wizard( not OT anymore)

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No: HPFGUIDX 9870

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Caius Marcius" <coriolan at w...> 
wrote:
> I'll be interested in reaction to this story

>From the Archives of the Daily Prophet Circa 1974:

[Hogsmeade] Headmaster Albus Dumbledore is meeting with resistance
from the Hogwarts Board of Governors in his attempt to broaden the 
curriculum at Britain's premier school of witchcraft and wizardry. 
The focus of the controversy is the newly reconstituted Muggle Studies 
program at the school which this year includes a unit on arts and 
culture in addition to the traditional social habits and customs, 
history and politics.  The board is already deeply divided over 
Dumbledore's campaign to make Muggle Studies mandatory for all 
students. "I fail to see any advantage in taking valuable class time
to study what the Muggles themselves refer to as a "vast wasteland,"
says Titus Malfoy, school governor and prominent spokeswizard for the 
traditionalist view.  "A complete distortion," replies Wendell Weasley,  
one of Dumbledore's strongest supporters on the Board.
	Professor Gloria Mundy, Head of the Muggle Studies Department, 
welcomes the change. "Our Muggle born students have a need to
recognize themselves in our society. And the appeal of Shakespear is 
universal. I've seldom seen such a degree of excitement in our 
classes." William Shakespear (1564-1616) was the author of several 
plays, including The Tempest, which will be presented as a student 
production at Hogwarts this spring.
	As for the students themselves, they seem enchanted by the  
prospect. Muggleborn witch and Gryffindor student Lily Evans, 15, who 
will take the part of Miranda, says she is "just thrilled to be a
part of it. All my friends are, too." 
	James Potter, another Gryffindor student, says playing the part of 
the Muggle prince Ferdinand, who is shipwrecked on an enchanted isle 
inhabited only by wizards and magical creatures , has given him new 
insight into Muggle/wizard relations. "Plus I get to snog Miranda" he 
said, winking.
	Another view was presented by Severus Snape, 15, of Slytherin, who 
will be playing the mer/human crossbreed Caliban. Mr. Snape declined
to comment for for the record, but did threaten to turn this reporter
into a toad. 

Pippin