Nashville school bans ‘Harry Potter’ books in *checks notes* 2019

According to my trusty docket it’s 2019, but a Catholic school in Nashville, Tennessee, is over here banning Harry Potter journals like it’s 2002 or something.

On Saturday, the Tennessean reported that the students of St. Edward Catholic School will no longer be allowed to check out volumes in the Harry Potter series from their school library on account of the “curses and spells” present within the J.K. Rowling texts.

The neighbourhood publishing states that Rev. Dan Reehil, a pastor at the school, explained government decisions in an email to parents.

“These books present sorcery as both good and evil, which is not true, but in fact a clever fraud, ” he wrote. “The expletives and trances used in the books are actual expletives and trances; which when read by a human being risk conjuring evil spirits into the presence of the person reading the text.” Read more …

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