Board of Education attorney Victoria Sweeny said that if schools were to remove all books containing reference to witches, they would have to ban Macbeth and Cinderella.
And because it's un-American to tell religious fanatics to stop trying to impose their insanity on the rest of us, the Board is falling back on the "but Harry Potter is innocuous and sweet!" defense:
"There's a mountain of evidence for keeping Harry Potter," [Sweeney] said, adding that the books don't support any particular religion but present instead universal themes of friendship and overcoming adversity.
A photo that ran with the AP story shows Mallory holding up a pamphlet for a summer camp where, apparently, kids can learn witchcraft. So she's proved that witches (or at least wannabe witches) exist; can she scare up some logic to connect it back to the books? Or would that in itself be considered a form of conjuring?
