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Harry Potter books BANNED in horrific bombshell ‘They risk conjuring evil spirits’
HARRY POTTER books have been banned by a school in Nashville, Tennessee for putting readers at “risk of conjuring evil spirits”.
JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books are some of the best-selling novels in the world. However, with a plot concerning wizards, witchcraft and sorcery, her works have proved controversial in some religious circles. And now a school in Nashville, Tennessee have banned the novels from the educational institute’s library. According to The Tennessean, pupils at St Edward Catholic School will no longer be able to borrow the Harry Potter books to read.
The magical adventures have been censored from the school library because of their content, after Reverend Dan Reehil, a pastor of the Roman Catholic school wrote an email voicing his concerns.
The email said: “These books present magic as both good and evil, which is not true, but in fact a clever deception.
“The curses and spells used in the books are actual curses and spells; which when read by a human being risk conjuring evil spirits into the presence of the person reading the text.”
Reehil went on to clarify that he had consulted several exorcists from the US and Rome who recommended the Harry Potter books be removed from the school library.
While the Roman Catholic church’s Vatican newspaper has previously condemned the Harry Potter books for “promoting witchcraft”, the same publication also praised the final film.
L’Osservatore Romano’s review said: “As for the content, evil is never presented as fascinating or attractive in the saga, but the values of friendship and of sacrifice are highlighted.
“In a unique and long story of formation, through painful passages of dealing with death and loss, the hero and his companions mature from the lightheartedness of infancy to the complex reality of adulthood.”
Meanwhile, Harry Potter was beaten in a new poll of Britain’s favourite books.
SOURCE: EXPRESS
