I read banned books!!

I am a Harry Potter fanatic. I love the books and have read them many times. I go to both www.the-leaky-cauldron.org and www.mugglenet.com ever day to catch myself up on the Potter news for the day. I am also an educator. I find it horrendous that there are people in our country who seek to censor what others read. The following is text from www.the-leaky0-cauldron.org regarding Banned Books Week.

"Each fall since 1982, the American Library Association (ALA) has started the school year by reminding Americans "not to take for granted their precious freedom to read."

Every year the American Library Association's office of intellectual freedom receives hundreds of requests to take books off shelves (otherwise known as a "challenge") for various reasons; this office estimates the number of challenges is actually four or five times higher than the number of challenges reported to them. J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series is consistently challenged and banned from libraries around the country.

Harry Potter has enriched all of our lives; by supporting an effort to end censorship you may be responsible for getting that one extra child into a library to pick up these and then many more magical books."

As a free society , the United States has made any strides in equality and freedom, though it seems in recent years to have taken several leaps backwards on these issues. However, never will I allow anyone to tell me what I can and cannot read. My intellect, my choice. If I choose to read Harry Potter or romance novels or the Bible or the Quaran, it is my choice. No one may tell me that I am not allowed to read certain books. We must not allow the narrow minds of people to tell our children what to read either.