A Gwinnett County mother’s push to get Harry Potter books banned
from elementary school bookshelves has made it to the state board of
education.

Laura Mallory is the mother of three who’s fighting
against those books. Tuesday morning she pleaded her case to a hearing
officer who will make a recommendation to the state board.

Among
her arguments is a central theme that the books promote witchcraft and
evil, but people who know about real life witchcraft, or Wiccanism, say
the witches in the Potter books have nothing to do with reality and a
lot more to do with getting children to enjoy reading.

At Inner
Space and the Hoot Owl Attic bookstore in Sandy Springs you can find
anything you want to know about the mystical world.

“We have books on Wicca, Paganism, mystical Christianity,” the clerk said.

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