School Consults Exorcists, Bans Harry Potter Books Because They Contain 'Real' Curses & Spells
We all have grown up watching Harry Potter movies and probably reading the books too. The Harry Potter books were the favourites of many kids in school, right? If you got read them at your school library, consider yourselves lucky because this catholic school, St. Edward Church and School in Nashville, Tennessee, has banned Harry Potter books recently.
We all have grown up watching Harry Potter movies and probably reading the books too. The Harry Potter books were the favourites of many kids in school, right? If you got read them at your school library, consider yourselves lucky because this catholic school, St. Edward Church and School in Nashville, Tennessee, has banned Harry Potter books recently.
Why? Because the books have ¡°real¡± curses and spells, and they ¡°risk conjuring evil spirits¡±.
Apparently, they took advice from an exorcist who suggested this.
So, you thought the books and the spells were all figment of imagination? According to Reverend Dan Reehil, who is a pastor at the Roman Catholic parish school, they are sinister.
He added that he consulted many exorcists in the US as well as Rome and they suggested him to remove these books from students¡¯ possession.
In an email addressed to the parents of kids, he writes, ¡°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.¡±
Rebecca Hammel, who is the superintendent of schools for the Catholic Diocese of Nashville, has confirmed that this email has been sent.
She says, ¡°he¡¯s well within his authority to act in that manner¡± as ¡°each pastor has canonical authority to make such decisions for his parish school.¡±
¡°Should parents deem that this or any other media to be appropriate we would hope that they would just guide their sons and daughters to understand the content through the lens of our faith. We really don't get into censorship in such selections other than making sure that what we put in our school libraries is age appropriate materials for our classrooms,¡± she told The Tennessean.
Written by JK Rowling, Harry Potter books are highest-selling books across the globe.
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