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Her opinion on the book mostly seems to come from her mom anyway.
I'm actually pretty curious to see how she thinks.

But yeah, if Harry Potter is a threat to your faith in your mom's eyes, Eternal, then we're probably much worse.
A huge part of being in this guild is having people actively questioning and denying your faith.

Being in this guild is a bit hard, but my mom knows what goes on. She doesn't seem to have a problem with it, partly because when it does weaken my faith, I step away from it for a bit and really think about it. As nice as it would be not to worry about secular influences, I niether live nor expect to live in a world like that. Since I don't want to live away from the world, I want to understand it as much as I can without becoming part of it.

And yeah, I think you should see that. My mom really thinks about things, and she's passionate about different subjects then I am. I'm not sure how she'll come across over the net, but i know she can explain where she's coming from a lot better the I could.

And I didn't say I wanted it banned (though banning a single book isn't the worst thing could happen. I'd be far more worried if society banned a lot of books from the general public, instead of banning a book in a school. School restricts our rights anyway >.<). I just don't think it should be encouraged the way it is. If teachers are told a child isn't allowed to read a book, that should be enforced.

@Someone:Good point. To tell the truth we didn't get the internet until this year because my brother abused it. My mom is coming from a place where we could do without it, and if my sister and I hadn't begged her for it for something since we lost it, we probrably would never have gotten it. To tell the truth though, we could lose it rather easily, so it's a privilage to be on here.

And as for hating Harry Potter...it's like being a drunk to me. If I were a drunk I'd hate, but I'd be addicted. In a way, I liked the story so much I was addicted. Now I hate it and wouldn't mind watching it burn. I don't hate JK Rowling though. Even if I hate this work, her work is not her. You can love someone even if you dislike characteristics about the person, things they've made or their actions, the same way you can care about you're own life even after you've done something horrible, like murdered someone. It's confusing, but human nature is rather twisted anyway. That's what you get from with a being that contains both good and evil.
Though, you're right, hate may be a bit strong. I'm willing to go with extremely dislike.
I'll also admit to not being completely rational about it. The whole thing ended up rather horribly, so with me my feelings against Harry Potter are personal. I don't hate JK Rowling because of her books though.

Then anything you write I'll definately pass on. I read to be entertained. If I want to read to learn something, I'll read my boyfriend's trig book.

I'll get it to you if I can.

You're putting something in a kids head. A powerful book will influence us for better or worse. If you think Harry Potter is wrong, then you wanna keep it from you're kid to make sure it doesn't have an ill effect.
They kinda do now. At the school where my mom teaches, I think they don't put pork in the school lunches because of kids of a certain religion (not Judiasm).
And some parents can't do that. My mom can't afford a private school and she has to work because she's divorced. She might've homeschooled us if she didn't have to, but as it is, that wasn't a possiblity.
And if they have to learn every kid's name, then should a parent make a request like that, I don't think it would be that difficult to keep track of. I doubt you have that many kids whose parents don't want them to read Harry Potter.

I think I hate it out of a negative experience, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that. If it were a person I'd forgive it, but it's a book, so I'm gonna keep the negative feelings in this case.
And I agree! The books I love most are the ones that made me feel something. But I still hold an extreme dislike for Harry Potter and think it's wrong. Agreeing to disagree (you said we should at one point) sounds good.

Hehe, I doubt she would be too hurt.
Her books have thousands of fans and are at the center of many of my generation's fondest childhood memories.
And they have, at the same time, people who say that her book is satanic and gather in groups to protest and burn them.
I doubt that her day would be ruined if she found out that Eternal didn't like her books.
Or at least that she would be any less hurt than if she found out that you hate the use of magical entities in the book.

How do you like the book if you hate the use of magic by the way?

Don't bother yourself with it if it's a hassle.
It would be interesting, but if she's busy or something then that's fine.
I just see no problem with you quoting her exact words to help your point.

Islam? Either way, I'm glad they started doing that.
Before that must have been really hard on parents who want to keep their children from eating pork.
What age group does your mom teach?

And learning a kid's name is different. It's a high priority.
Then I'd assume under that are allergies and health coniditions.
But though maybe one or two kids aren't allowed to read Harry Potter, one or two other kids aren't allowed to read Narnia because of the Christian themes.
Each parent is going to have some set of rules at the same priority as keeping Harry Potter away from kids that they would like enforced.

One of my friends wants to go into elementary school education.
She said they have so many students per teacher that it's hard enough to make sure that they're following the school rules and are safe and that it's impossible to give each one individual attention.

Besides, I've yet to hear of one kid who seriously actually turned to witchcraft because of reading Harry Potter.

It'd be more of a hassle because I doubt I can actually get her to sit down and type. She doesn't especially like computers. I think I'll have her write it out, and I'll type it.

They had a large population of (Islamic? I think that's it, but I can't be sure) kids.
And she teaches elementary reading, though I think she's certified for more then that. She teaches in the inner city, which should probrably worry me, but strangely doesn't.

Questionable books could be set at the corner of a shelf, and there could be a list the teacher/librarians keep. I doubt it'd be that hard to enforce, especially in an elementary school classroom, where the teacher has about 20 kids they see every day.

Is 20 kids to a teacher a lot? That's the ratio around here, but it could be different elsewhere. And the parents involvement makes a huge difference. In the inner city they have a fight a day, and the kids were talking at one point about how many friends they had that were dead. One of my mom's students tried to rob her until she recognized him. It's a lot different here, where the worst most kids do is skip class occasionally. And that's still comparing elementary to high school.

I think one of the links I put up had some stories on it. I could try to find it again...