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The American Library Association Web site is a bounty of information — especially about books. But the site isn’t just a place for renewals, fees and reviews. Instead it is a gathering of information and facts about books themselves, and the influences they’ve had intellectually and culturally. There is a great quote you see when […]

The Potter-verse was thrown for a loop when author J.K. Rowling announced she had always imagined one of the main characters in the “Harry Potter” series — Albus Dumbledore — to be gay.Even the most diligent “Harry Potter” scholars found themselves caught unaware. But could anyone have seen this coming? Did Rowling leave any clues […]

Harry Potter author JK Rowling has revealed that one of her characters, Hogwarts school headmaster Albus Dumbledore, is gay.
She made her revelation to a packed house in New York’s Carnegie Hall on Friday, as part of her US book tour.
She took audience questions and was asked if Dumbledore found “true love”.
“Dumbledore is gay,” she said, […]

CBNNews.com - The popular book and movie series about witchcraft that has already drawn much opposition from Christians will likely elicit more criticism.
One of the main male characters, a master wizard and headmaster of the book’s witchcraft school, known as Albus Dumbledore, was declared by author J.K. Rowling to be gay.
She presented this information after […]

I graduated from a fundamentalist Christian high school that saw Harry Potter as the biggest threat to a child?s healthy upbringing since the invention of birth control.
Picking up Harry Potter for the first time gave me a feeling I think a pre-teen might have drinking their father?s beer with a friend behind the backyard fence.
I […]

A VICAR is calling for debate about the use of fictional wizard Harry Potter as a promotional tool for the Church.
The Rev Kevin Logan, of Christ Church with Cannon Street, Accrington, said that JK Rowling’s teenage hero has many similarities with religious figure Jesus Christ - but the author’s references to paganism could lead children […]

The dominionist Christian Right has been denouncing them since the first book appeared. The frenzy surrounding the release of the last book in the series brought renewed, more hysterical warnings about the “dangers” posed by Harry Potter.
James Dobson reiterated what “he said a few years ago on his daily [Focus on the Family] radio broadcast […]

However he fared in the “Deathly Hallows,” young Harry Potter seems to be holding his own on the religion front.
This is not a spoiler, but an observation; anecdotal evidence seems to suggest faith-based criticism of the saga is fading.
It’s a fair assessment, says Dr. Richard Lachmann, professor of sociology of culture at the University at […]

MEXICO CITY: The leading exorcist of Mexico’s main archdiocese said the popular Harry Potter book and film series could allow the devil to enter children’s minds, and does “a lot of damage.”
The Rev. Pedro Mendoza, a Roman Catholic priest and exorcist coordinator of the Archdiocese of Mexico City, made the comments at the end of […]

New Delhi, July 24 (PTI): As pottermania rages across the world with the launch of the seventh and final instalment in the tales of the boy wizard, so does a debate about whether the Harry Potter books could affect children in an adverse way by promoting witchcraft and superstition.
The massive popularity of the Harry Potter […]