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American Prospect, The, December, 2001 by Morone, James A.
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BACK WHEN THE HARRY Potter books first reached America, the righteous were ready: Conservative Christians called for a ban on the little wizard. Focus on the Family, a conservative religious group, cautioned that "witchcraft ... is directly denounced in scripture." Evangelical preachers pounded Harry Potter as "the work of the devil." Harry flattened the preachers, of course--the tally now stands at 114 million books sold and still counting.
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My next-door neighbor, Laura Walker (age 13), blasted through the most recent book--the 734-page Harry Potter and the ...
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