Laura Mallory is at it again, she is heading a a campaign to ban Harry Potter books from her local elementry in Loganville, Georgia. She says that because of these books more school shootings will happen and more violence will occur.Laura Mallory, a mother of four from the Atlanta suburb of Loganville, told a Georgia Board of Education officer that the books by British author J.K. Rowling, sought to indoctrinate children as Wiccans, or practitioners of religious witchcraft.Referring to the recent rash of deadly assaults at schools, Mallory said books that promote evil - as she claims the Potter ones do - help foster the kind of culture where school shootings happen.That would not happen if students instead read the Bible, Mallory said.What the heck lady!?!?! Get a life, the school your talking about is a public school and can carry what ever they please and your arguement about not carrying these books is lame. Mr. Potter promotes Wiccans? or teaches kids about witchcraft? And then suggesting to replace these books with CS Lewis or Left Behind: Kids. ? Are you mad? I'm sure Laura Mallory has her child's best interest at heart, but her interests would be better served if she knew more about the Wiccan faith than less. Any faith which endorses "And it harm none, do what you will" is encouraging anything but evil, no matter what her christian church believes. And the Harry Potter books? No religion at all in them. She needs to look a little harder at the things that are evil in this world, and Harry Potter books are not anywhere near the top of that list.What happened to the pure 'magic' of a child's imagination? Something tells me that the men who recently took the lives of innocent school children wouldnt have been deterred from their fatal paths by the banning of Harry Potter books- madness.My children and I have all read the Harry Potter books. It is fantasy and fortunately my children (and most others that read them) can distinguish the difference between them and real life. Get a grip woman - these attacks in school have been tragic but carried out with guns not with wands and broomsticks.It's not Harry Potter to blame but the lack of social discipline and morality due to years of liberalism and political correctness with emphasis on rights rather than responsibility. People think they can do what they like!I doubt very much that the Amish school shootings has anything to do with Harry Potter. I can not recall any Harry Potter story line suggesting binding up young girls and callously shooting them. I do however recall a lot of slaughter in the bible. The second chapter deals with an awful amount of smiting. Im just saying that if she knocks on Harry Potter, she needs to be more consistant to what she is saying. I dont know about you but the CS Lewis books are about fantasy and the title "The Lion, WITCH, and the wardrobe"hmmmm. Grant it i do like the story and wouldnt tell my kids not to read them, its the fact that Laura Mallory rather have books that almost have the same content left in the school libraries. Heck when i was little i read dungeons and dragons books in a time where they were evil and created kids to act out with swords in sewers to kill each other(sound familiar? cause D&D was a scapegoat for teen angst in the 80s, much like rap or video games are today). So even back in the early 80's parents needed to be involved in thier childrens lives and teach them what is real and not. Not the mention the comic books i've read, in the late 80's most of the books were filled with half naked superheros that always had sexual innuendoes and were bent on violence rather than just talking out thier problems. Even thou i rambled on, we all have our own problems and we all have our own solutions. But when people do things to limit others thats where most people draw the line. She may have good intentions for her family but does she have to push her beliefs on the rest of us? But then again we are in a free speech nation and many more people like this will come around so on that note sigh............. PS after reading what i wrote i suck, wheres my engrish teacher to correct me :P anyways ill still post it.