[HPforGrownups] Anti-Harry Potter Video???

[Wanda Mallett]

No: HPFGUIDX 25411

My Aunt in Texas sends me all kinds of anti-HP stuff 
from many church friends. I just keep sending her HP
postcards with positive feedback! Like how the boys
love to read the books and can't wait for the movie to
go see it! I had my own experience with JW's. My
mother is still one. They don't want anything to do
with anything worldly. Enough said there. But it is to
bad that there are so many out there who hate
something. Here is something that is bring people
together, like Pokemon. My boys are into that too. But
it is a very positive show. HP brings out the fun in
reading and the imagination of something different.
Science Fiction has so many avenues of fantasy! I love
reading all the old classics of Jules Verne and HG
Wells! No matter what part of History, there are
always those that will try to ban something that is
new and different. Just wanted to put my few knuts
into this discussion.

Wanda
 
--- "Tandy, Heidi"
<heidi.h.tandy.c92 at alumni.upenn.edu> wrote:
> I believe the-leaky-cauldron.org has written on this
> video a bit, including
> links to articles in a florida paper about it. BK,
> any links?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ebony <ebonyink at hotmail.com>
> To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
> <HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sun Sep 02 15:17:36 2001
> Subject: [HPforGrownups] Anti-Harry Potter Video???
> 
> Real-To:  "Ebony" <ebonyink at hotmail.com>
> 
> I received an e-mail from one of my NCTE digests and
> was slightly 
> alarmed.  Has anyone heard of the video being
> referred to?
> 
> ********************
> 
> Subject: Re: Re: [ncte-talk] Anti-Harry Potter video
> warns about 
> witchcraft
> 
> Hi - Just had to jump into this conversation.  I
> have never had a 
> parent object or ban a book before in my career and
> I am so adamantly 
> and passionately opposed to censoring that it came
> as a complete 
> shock to me that a parent is refusing to allow her
> daughter to read 
> Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets because it
> teaches sorcery 
> and their religion (Jehovah's Witness) does not
> allow it.  I asked 
> her if she read the book, as it does not teach
> sorcery or anything 
> like that.. and she said she is not allowed to.  She
> then said her 
> daughter could read The Hobbit (like that isn't the
> same thing??).. 
> But then my readiness to switch, or something, must
> have prompted her 
> to investigate The Hobbit, which she said she had
> read and her
> other children had read, blah,blah, blah,... and now
> I've been 
> informed that she can't read that either.  Now,
> she's not opposed to 
> the class reading it and her daughter sitting in the
> library for the 
> duration reading books and writing "book
> reports,"... but that's not 
> how I teach... So, I'm frustrated, upset and in
> search of another 
> book to start off the school year (I'm think
> Adventures of 
> Huckleberry Finn)!!  Thanks for letting me vent.
> 
> **********************************
> 
> 
> End note--I've been in this colleague's shoes
> (actually, was there 
> last year).  It is a VERY frustrating and
> infuriating thing to have 
> spent a good 20+ hours preparing a full unit around
> a novel that the 
> profession is legitimizing (the NCTE and the IRA
> *love* Harry Potter 
> and want to add it to the recognized body of
> adolescent lit 
> appropriate for the classroom)... and then to be
> unable to teach it 
> because you don't want to exclude all the other
> kids.
> 
> Sigh.
> 
> --Ebony AKA AngieJ (who is glad she teaches high
> school now)
> 
> 
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