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Harry Potter Controversy: Hogwarts School
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While Raincoast was embroiled in the Harry Potter controversy, the Manitoba Frontier School Division was facing a similarly troubling situation. Last year, the Stark Museum in Orange, Texas donated four reproductions of paintings by Paul Kane, one of Canada’s leading artists during the 1800s. The paintings were seen as a homecoming of sorts since one of the portraits features the only known likeness of aboriginal elder Ogemawwah Chack, “The Spirit Chief,” who is a direct ancestor of many local residents.
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Harry Potter has become a record breaking phenomena and is the 21st century's opening fairytale. Within the pages J.K. Rowling created a World of Wizards and Witches, and unwittingly exposed the fastest growing religion in America to hundreds of millions of people. The faith is called Wicca and its members are Witches, and it is at the core of the controversy that Hogwart's School has created.
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Harry Potter Boxed Set -- Chamber of Secrets, Sorcerer''s Stone, Prisoner of Azkaban Young wizard-in-training Harry Potter has had his hands full during his first three years at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As if excelling on
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Reports from London say some youngsters were snoozing by hour 2 of the new Harry Potter film. Avoid that scenario by following these tips from Robin F. Goodman, clinical associate professor at New York University's School of Medicine and director of www.AboutOurKids.org and Public Education Programs at the NYU Child Study Center.
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Other essays on the FFL mistakenly associate the Harry Potter books with Wicca. They point out that Wiccan covens have been granted IRS status, and that the Army has appointed Wiccan chaplains. Thus, Wicca is a formal religion. They assert that to read these books in the public schools is to violate the separation of church and state as defined in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The FFL authors are confusing Wicca with imaginary witchcraft. The Harry Potter books are fantasy novels; they do not teach the Wiccan religion.
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[M]etro Atlanta has been in the spotlight here recently, with a mother in Gwinnett County trying, through several layers of the appeals process, to get the Harry Potter books banned from Gwinnett school libraries. So far, she has not been successful, but she has plenty of company: The Harry Potter books are the most banned of the last few years, according to the ALA.
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