Hi everyone -- banning the books

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 159712

(New) Carol wrote:
> > Don't know if you heard about that woman that wants to ban the
Harry Potter books, but I think she is crazy.  She said that the books
teach our kids witchcraft.  I think she is nuts.
> 
Bruce responded:
> Another Carol.  Carol Matricino (or something like that).  In the
> late 70's, early 80's she made a lot of money with books and tapes
> about the evils of the New Age Movement.  <snip>
> The "witches" of Harry Potter are genetically different human
> beings, not converts to the religion of Wicca.  There are as many
> real witches in Harry Potter as there were in Salem (NONE).  I am
> really sensitive to the issue, because one of my ancestors was
> Rebecca Addington (AKA Rebecca Shelley, Rebecca Chamberlain) who
> died in a Salem jail awaiting trial on a false charge of
> witchcraft.  I also know a member of the church of Wicca, who is
> more opposed to Harry Potter than most of the Christian
> fundamentalists - it misrepresents her religion.  I fight the lunacy
> of those against Harry Potter all the time.

>
Carol (not the new one) notes:

One of my ancestors was Martha Carrier, who was hanged at the Salem
witch trials. Her granddaughter married a man named Stallworthy
Waters, and my father's maternal grandmother was a Waters. I like to
pretend that Martha Carrier's gene for witchcraft was Carried by the
Waters down to me. But of course you're right: There's no such thing
as a real witch, much as I'd like to believe that the WW is real, and
 not all fundamentalists believe in book banning, as some of our list
members illustrate.

My apologies to the List Elves for being OT here. I'll get back to my
usual canon-based arguments at the first opportunity, but first I'd
like to recommend to the spate of newbies that they try out our
improved search engine, which will lead you to threads on RAB,
Horcruxes, DDM!Snape (DDM = Dumbledore's Man), and just about any
other topic you can think of. I recommend using multiple search terms
as "Snape" or "Horcrux" will give you too many results for the search
engine to handle.

Carol, wanting to unconfuse any list members who may have thought that
the new Carol's post was mine (who knew there were so many Carols?)
and to commiserate with Bruce over the tragic fate of our "witch"
ancestors