... is rather out of place there, but things improve greatly for him when he goes to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. J.K. Rowling adds some delightful novelties of her own, such as Quidditch, a seven-a-side ball game played on broomsticks, with three different kinds of ... which a neophyte wizard attends a school for wizards- Ursula Le Guin's, "A Wizard of Earthsea."" http://dannyreviews.com/h/Harry_Potter.html. He says that Rowling reworks superficial popular ideas about magic in an ad hoc fashion, Le Guin constructs a fully-fledged, but consistent and coherent, world of her...

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... from public schools, parents tend to snub their noses at books with religious content. Or, when viewed from the opposite perspective, people protest to the books that contain unholy content. J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, for example, raised some debates over whether schools should allow it in their libraries because of its magical and ungodly content. A pastor at St. Joseph School in ... for a Catholic school. The pastor thought most children were "strong enough to resist the temptation," but his job was to "protect the weak and the strong" (Bates and Hansen). Assuredly, J.K. Rowl...

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... our culture depends. Thus, creativity and the perception of reality would be greatly limited. Religion, a controversial topic in itself, also inspires the challenge of certain books. Recently, censors are criticizing J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. They claim that the reading of such novels encourages witchcraft, and therefore should be banned (Cain 599-608). Witchcraft goes against basic religious principles. They see this ... ...

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