[HPforGrownups] Re: Hi everyone -- banning the books

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 159491

x_dreamsmadeflesh_x:

I find it humerous when people try to say HP is
bad, but when you ask them why they can't give a good reason at all.
Most of the people trying to ban them have never even read them and
that annoys me so much!

Lynda:

I think my church is divided about 1/3 to 2/3's on this matter and its not a
fundamentalist church but a major protestant denomination (Disciples of
Christ).  Some of my friends are set dead against them but most of the
children and many of the adults have read them.

One of my friends who is married to a Baptist minister was against them at
first, but after several years she picked up SS at the library and the rest,
so to speak is history.  Most lately, she ask me to tell her all about Half
Blood Prince because she lives in a rural section of Maryland and the
library doesn't carry the books. Quite a change from the woman who told me
the books were nothing more than trash that could not possibly be
interesting.  And this is the woman who introduced me to David Eddings,
Katherine Kurtz and Patricia McKillip among other recognizable fantasy
writers.

Lynda


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