The Banning Of Deathly Hallows By J. K. Rowling

When we think of wrongly accused situations we think of innocent people being judged falsely but we never think of something like book banning. J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series, knows that she has been wrongly accused of things such as witchcraft, atheistic morals, and corruption of young minds. In an interview with MTV Rowling states that not only has she tried to promote Christian ideals but actually quoted the bible itself. “'They almost epitomize the whole series,' she says of the scripture Harry reads in Godric's Hollow” (Alder). Deathly Hallows is the one novel that she specifically quotes these examples of scripture and is now being ridiculed for it. J.K. Rowling has not been only been criminalized with the banning
“Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God. (Leviticus 19)”, “You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder! (James 2)”. (34) These are verses that Christians have used in their fight against Rowling and her “satanic” novels that promote death and evil witchcraft. Rowling herself being a Christian says “I go to church myself,” she declared. “I don’t take any responsibility for the lunatic fringes of my own religion” (Alder). These attacks are against a book and one of your points is that the popularity of such a book may destroy young minds. Has this not happened previously in history and turned into quit an astonishing result? The Bible itself still to this day is criticized because as old as it is there has to be certain things that have been changed or tampered with. The most published and owned book in the world may not be completely legitimate and is/was banned in multiple countries, for a lot of the same reasons I may add. These are some of the questions parents should be asking themselves before they go on a rant about a book that has not only improved the likeness of books in young children but also promoted proud and honest
Rowling was named Time magazines’ most influential person in 2007. How could a woman like that write a book promoting death, killing, and demonic actions? These accusations of evil intentions and horrid actions are misplaced and used without the knowledge of what is really behind the meaning of those words in her books. Harry Potter novels, all seven, have been wrongly accused of multiple charges that have no true backing. The fight will continue to take Harry Potter away from the shelves of schools and out of the hands of children, but the true facts have yet to surface; J.K. Rowling does the complete opposite of endorse witchcraft, she backs the Christian faith and pushes pure morality. With real quotations and the public stature that Rowling has, how can she be doing it wrong? The fire under her chair from critics and the entire world is more than I can imagine and with the posture she has kept up through all this is incredible. Rowling herself is “proud to be on the banned book list” (Alder) because it demonstrates the change her words really have made to the world, primarily in a positive way in most