Hogwarts Students Not Welcome Here

The Harry Potter series has been banned again, this time in Australia, where a Christian college is concerned that “the books promoted wizardry as normal – not a message to which students should be exposed.” Since Harry’s wizardry is not only not normal, but, in fact, fictional, one might be tempted to dismiss the Maranatha Christian College as a bunch of fundamentalist yahoos, but the school is only the latest in a long string of institutions worldwide which have discerned some grave threat to followers of Jesus in the works of J.K. Rowling.