Several groups around the country have agreed to ban the Harry Potter series in schools. For example, in 2007, a catholic pastor in Boston MA stated that these books should be banned. They "contained themes of witcraft and sorcery." He did not want his students to hear these things. He said it was "his job to protect the strong and the weak." Another example of a group who banned this series was in 2002 in Lewiston ME. They went as far as to shred coppies of the Harry Potter books the night before the movie was released. This stood as a symbol of how they diagreed with the books. The last example was in 2004 when people of Fort Hancock Texas said that the books were full of "mysticism" and "paganism." These are a few examples of how these books have been found controversial and why they have been banned.
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