Harry Potter Book Banned

Book Banning has existed in America since colonial times, when legislatures and royal governors enacted laws against blasphemy and seditious libel. Legislatures in the early American republic passed laws against obscenity. Though freedom of the press has grown significantly over the course of the twentieth century, book banning and related forms of censorship have persisted due to cyclical concerns about affronts to cultural, political, moral, and religious belief.

Drugs, sex, and profanity are daily topics for today's society. Students around the world are faced with all these topics everyday. Why ban books that could help students understand more of the situations that they will have to deal with in life. Sometimes it is hard to talk
J.K. Rowling, author of Harry Potter, started the series in 2000. Harry Potter is a book series about seven years of a young wizard's life. This book is detested because of the witchcraft and adventure. These books have sold million of copies world wide. Not only is it a New-York Best Seller, there are even essay contests on how Harry Potter Books have changed peoples' lives. Tyler Walton wrote that the series helped him through his leukemia treatments. Another contest named Ashley, wrote that the series helped her cope with the constant change of different foster cares. She believed that her and Harry Potter have a lot of copy, such as they both have horrible scars to remind them of their past. Something that is so inspirational, why is it so frequently challenged? Macbeth, written in the eighteenth century is taught nation wide. Shakespeare, the author, wrote of a man that was told prophecies and acted on them through a wide variety adventures, including in his death. This story is yet not as inspirational as the Harry Potter series and almost impossible to read without side notes. These two tolerably stories are the same in context, but yet one is banned and one is taught nation wide as an example of great
She struggles through her life with racism and other tribulations. This book has been frequently challenged for the over the years. It, The Lost Boy, and A Man Named Dave, written by Dave Pelzer, is a series written to describe the long time abuse of his childhood that started when he was a child. Now to the dismay to certain beliefs both stories would be relatively good to be taught in a classroom setting. The only problem one is banned for the racism context. So why is child abuse an approachable subject, but racism