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In September 2005, Laura Mallory, a mother of four children in Loganville, Georgia, attempted to have the Harry Potter books banned from her children's school library on the grounds that they promoted a religion, Wicca, and thus for a public school library to hold them would violate the separation of church and state.
The Harry Potter book series by J. K. Rowling has resulted in numerous controversies over its publication and content, primarily in the realms of law and religion. For further information see: Religious debates over the Harry Potter series; Legal disputes over the Harry Potter series; Politics of Harry Potter; Harry Potter influences and analogues
In July 2007, a dispute arose between Harry Potter's British publisher, Bloomsbury, and Asda, a British supermarket chain owned by the US corporation Wal-Mart. On 15 July, a week before the release of the final Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Asda issued a press release accusing Bloomsbury of unfairly fixing their prices.
Palm Beach County district records show all complaints were filed by parents, although records do not say where the parents' children attended school. Harry Potter among books that have been ...
Cedarville School District dealt with the banning of the Harry Potter books in public schools. [91] After the Cedarville, Arkansas School District prohibited students from checking out Harry Potter books from the library without parental permission, the parents of Dakota Counts filed a lawsuit, claiming that the rule infringed upon their ...
Emma Watson opened up about why she almost walked away from the Harry Potter franchise after 2005’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Everything to Know About the ‘Harry Potter' Reunion ...
Miriam Margolyes. Miriam Margolyes thinks the Harry Potter mischief should have been managed by now.. The actress, who played Professor Sprout in the film adaptation of J.K. Rowling's book series ...
Harry Potter (series) J. K. Rowling: Unsuited to age group, witchcraft, religious viewpoint, anti-family, darkness/scariness/violence, and for "setting bad examples" 1997–2007 — 1 48 The Hate U Give: Angie Thomas: Profanity, violence, "thought to promote an anti-police message and indoctrination of a social agenda 2017 30 — —