Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Mr. Pointy said:
Teachers not encouraging kids to read - has the world gone mad? Well, I guess the answer is that it has...

Why on earth would schools not allow these books? I could understand them banning many other books (though I wouldn't necessarily agree with that for older kids) but Harry Potter? I know fundamentalists don't like them and come up with all sorts of nonsense about leading kids into Satanism and all that bollocks but when you actually read them you can see that there is a very definite sense of what is Good and what is Evil. I thought (as well as being a great read) that they are very moral.

Don't get me started on fundamentalists and The Simpsons...who put the Mental in fundamentalist? 😉

Rant over...
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I agree with you. I do not believe in the banning of ANY books. Reading is magic, and such themes in books that might be 'damaging' to children is not something that I am concerned about when thinking about a book. The reader is going to be exposed to all themes eventually, and I think it's better to get exposed to it through a good piece of literature, as opposed to the movies or something.

The main reason that Harry Potter was banned is because parents were causing a ruckus because the book focuses on witchcraft/wizardry. There are plenty of other books though, that are in school libraries and classrooms that deal with the same theme and are not banned. This was mainly placed in schools to deal with parents.

All schools do not have a ban on the book. I don't think that they nationally have banned it. I believe that administrators are the ones to make the decision on whether or not the book shall be allowed.

But, after reading all of these posts, I went to Barnes & Noble and purchased the second book. (I have the first). I've got a lot of catching up to do, but I have made it a personal goal to now read the books.

Thanks for the approval, Pointy!
 
The Harry Potter Books...I think are really good!! I have all 5 books...the first and second one to me were boring but the rest are really interesting...Hope you have fun reading...I can't wait until the 6th book comes out here in America...
 
The book came out in the USA yesterday, DarkAngel. I read the sixth one, and I'm sad to say that I was very disappointed. It's actually the first Harry Potter book that I don't like! Oh well, I'm sure the seventh one will be awesome.

I can't believe that any school would ban Harry Potter. I mean, I know that it has happened, but thankfully not anywhere near me. Parents have banned a few books at my senior high over the years, but students have always taken them to court and got the books put back into the library and curriculum, thank goodness.
 
Yay, I finished it!

And I agree with princess_zombie, in a sense that it was indeed different from the other books; but it isn't necessarily worse, although I do thought HP5 was better.
 
I love the Harry Potter books! I also can't believe that they get banned in schools. I do work with children, but it seems silly to ban them.

My husband even reads the books! He came home with HP6, but I honestly haven't opened it yet. I've got a stack that I have renewed from the library from my bedrest, that I really want to read. Too much reading!
 
WHA! Jump up and down and DANCE!! I finished this on Sunday.

I loved this book!!! LOVED it!! Probably mostly because it made me feel smart. I had all these theories about the romances and who was going to die, and who was going to get injured and who was the Half-Blood Prince and who was the new DADA professor and so on and so forth and only ONE didn't turn out to be right! HEE HE!!! I feel so smart.

But honestly. I adored this book. Like it even better than Prisoner of Azkaban, which was previously my favorite. I love all the info we get about Voldemort's life! Also, Ginny Weasley rocks my black and yellow striped socks.
 
I absolutely loved the book! I was shocked and surprised by a lot of the plot and didn't like some of JKRowling's decisions but i can see why she did it. She needed Harry to come to some decisions he wouldn't be able to make overwise. I personally can' t wait for the next book now. :crazy:
 
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