Liberal Bans, Re: Hi everyone -- banning the books

[horridporrid03]

No: HPFGUIDX 159689

> >>Kemper now:
> It's not that Harry or Hermione would ban Anne; it's that banning 
> one book makes it easier to ban others.  So starting off with what 
> seems a legitimate and righteous ban, sets the ground work to ban 
> for reasons less reasonable.
> So the book on Horcruxes is banned, but why not the book that tells
> Hermione the magical words to kill someone, Avada Kedavra?
> <snip>

Betsy Hp:
The interesting thing is that even with the ban, the knowledge of 
horcruxes is out there.  Which, IMO, demonstrates the futility of 
banning things.  Knowledge will out.  All the banning of information 
on horcruxes did was make it harder for the good guys to take down 
Voldemort.  (Frankly, I think Voldemort would be all for the ban, 
which should say something.)

I do agree that Hermione would be all over the sort of social 
engineering that leads to people banning Twain (he uses icky 
words).  And Hermione's dealings with both the half-blood Prince and 
Luna suggests that she would be against anything suggesting that the 
status quo might be wrong.

I'm not sure she'd out and out ban, but she'd want to protect people 
(like Ron and Harry) from getting confused by possibly wrong 
information.  Which is how it can start.  I know better than you, so 
I'll just moniter what information you receive.  (There are many 
ways in which Hermione echos Umbridge, especially when she's given 
her head.)

> >>montims:
> <snip>
> I would add, not wishing to be provocative or anything, and
> willing to be corrected, that I feel the banning is more of an    
> American than a British thing, for whatever political or religious 
> reason.
> <snip>

Betsy Hp:
>From what I've seen the US is actually the country with the 
strongest freedom of speech, and all that entails.  We might have 
more wackos out there demanding books be burned (and doing some 
burning), but our government isn't as involved as it is in other 
countries.  (Which always surprises me, but there you are.)

Betsy Hp