loony GA woman will continue effort to ban Potter books

http://www.11alive.com/news/article_news.aspx?storyid=90663

ATLANTA (AP) -- A suburban Atlanta mother who claims Harry Potter books teach children witchcraft said Wednesday that she will appeal the state’s decision to keep the best-selling books in Gwinnett County school libraries.

Laura Mallory, who has three children in elementary school, said she has requested an appeal of her case to Superior Court.

Mallory has tried to ban the books from Gwinnett County school library shelves since August 2005. She argues that the popular fiction series is an attempt to indoctrinate children in witchcraft.

Mallory said she’s ready for a legal fight. She said she’s already contacted a potential expert witness to lend support to her case. And she said supporters who urged her to continue the case have sent her “significant donations” to help pay legal fees.

good fucking grief.

Seems simple enough. Meanwhile, my kids will be reading them. Cause you don't get to raise my kids and I don't get to raise yours.

bringing up kids.

I hope that they somehow understand that their mom is a looney tune.

incomprehensible, the logic there

(like reading really fun, enlightened novels.)

What do you want to bet that she can barely read at a fourth-grade level???

If the Potter books are really recruiting witches and wizards, then where are they? There are millions and millions of these books in print; even if 1% of those reading the series became witches, we'd be seeing thousands of new ones crop up!

onedit: changed watches to witches. How'd *that* happen?...

This series started in, I believe, '97. Where are all the thousands of 22 year-old sorcerers?

but here's one :hi:

Don't tell the Muggles we exist!! They'll all want flying cars!!

I feel sorry for her children. She's on this *trip* and she's NEVER read the books! I'll bet her kids get teased on a daily basis for her lunacy.

Bibbidi bobbidi boo!

:rofl:

I'll bet my neighbor is one of the supporters sending her donations. My neighbor also thinks Harry Potter is evil and teaches kids witchcraft. A number of years ago one of her brood told my son that I was a bad mother for letting him read Harry Potter. That was the beginning of the end of their friendship.

Daily Prophet
January 19, 2007
Rita Skitter

Sometime muggle watching is necessary as they get ideas that are harmful to our world. After apparating to Georgia, my interview with the hag from Georgia was fraught with her nervous tics, loud incantations, foolish book waving and inability to appreciate royal traditions surrounding The Boy who Lived. Mallow maliciously espoused her hatred of witchraft and the devil, currently aligned with He Who Shall not Be Named played by some muggle miscreant named Cheney, but then she mentioned fervently wishing that her appeal would be heard by judicial mugwamps more powerful than the last bunch she failed in front of.

Meanwhile, her muggle children are secretly reading all about Potter. Her lovely girl muggle has a poster of Harry playing Quidditch and the explanation to Malloy was that it was soccer. Malloys next door neighbors have an American floo network connection which her son says is the best way to travel as he was on a field trip to review the accomodations at the Salem Institue which is where American witches and wizards go. Ms. Mallow had a crush years ago on Lord Voldemort and this is in retaliation for her small bits of love being spurned as she was a mere muggle. An anonymous source has her on the mailing list receiving Kwik Spels with other known Squibs in Filch's therapy group. Stay Tuned.

She's a self-loathin' squib!

:o

So, she believes 1) she is too poor of a parent to teach her own children her values (or they are too stupid to learn them), 2) witchcraft is stronger than her religion and is a serious threat to it, meaning her faith is weak, 3) it is easier to ban a series of books than to protect her own children, and 4) her insane beliefs are more important than our rights. Fuck that stupid piece of shit and the retarded horse she rode in on.

my .02

I usually respond that we all seem okay even though we grew up with the witches and wizards in "The Wizard of Oz". The well-meaning but misinformed almost always get an "aha" moment. Then I wax poetic about the Potter series and they realize they should investigate the books themselves. I have never discussed this with one of the real "psycho-Christians" who are not that far out of town. I doubt they would be that open-minded.

My husband and I had a good laugh about an article in the Religion section of the Kansas CIty Star last year. They discussed evangelicals who had condemned the books (without reading) because of the witchcraft thing. Then they went to the Harry Potter movies (insert snarky comment here) and "discovered" that they were full of Christian allegories, with all these bizarre parallels and symbolism. They said Jo Rowling must be a closet evangelical. I guess they can't just accept the books for what they are, really terrific kids books.

which is filled with absurd tall tales, sex & violence.

...HARRY POTTER IS JUST AS FICTIOUS AS JESUS! The Bible is grade A FICTION.

http://www.jkrowling.com/en/

"Once again, Harry Potter feature on the list of this years most-banned books. As this puts me in the company of Harper Lee, Mark Twai, J. D. Salinger, John Steinbeck, William Golding, and other writers I revere, I have always take my inclusion on this list as a great honour."


So there.


BTW, the next one is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows...:bounce:
but no word yet on when it's going to be out. x(

confirmation of that, either on amazon, or jk's site.

cannot wait, though. the discussions on amazon tonight were very interesting indeed.

Jeezo man. This is embarassing. I live in Gwinnett County.