Hoorayyy! Common Sense: 1, Jesus Freaks: ZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEROOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOO!

YAY! take that mallory. hahaha heheeehe

HA! Take that, Laura Mallory! Wait... -reads whole thing- ANOTHER appeal? Give it up! Geez...

Someone needs to hit her with a Clue-By-Four. She can appeal it all she wants, but I seriously doubt they'll ever be banned.

Clue-by-four. Hah. I read an article that said that Gwinnett's last book appeals were in 1997, against an RL Stein and Judy Blume. It said that the school didn't remove those books, either. The reason we learn about history is to learn from it, durhhh.

pwnt.

I'm popping the champagne.

hey AnyaMarcos, i am living proof that "Jesus freaks" otherwise known as Christians, can be crazy Harry Potter fans.....please don't confuse "Christian/Jesus Freak" with "Crazy-wacko-zombie-who-h ates-Harry-and-needs-to-g et-a-life" I am a very devout Catholic Christian who loves HP. So please be nice.

haha yeah we should just send her books!!! i can see her trying to appeal forever and never making it anywhere... you know what would be hilarious: when her kids grow up they read the books and become huge fans. haha i mean with her being this adament about banning the books that must spark curiosity within her kids and make them want to check out what their mom is so fervently against...

Woo, know what? Will smith and Johnny Depp might get a golden globe nomination! I hope both of them get one, that would be great. I can´t wait for the film the pursuit of happyness. Oh yeah, Im sure the penguins wouldn´t mind, they might dance but...;)

Pickles_not_dawlish, PLEASE don't start the religion wars again. PLEASE.

i wasn't trying to. i was just saying let's leave the religion out of it. please. pretty please?

Geeze lady stop waisting your time, it doesn't matter what you do, Harry Potter is one of the biggest things in the world.

Another appeal? Good gracious woman--let the madness end! You've never read the books, so therefore you don't have a basis from which to set up your arguements. You are merely fighting from the grounds of rumours which have been circulating across the globe since the moment the series began--that Harry Potter "promotes" and "glorifies" witchcraft. You have to have hard evidence and you will never find any. Stop wasting precious time and money on ridiculous accusations.

Is anyone actually defending her? No, you're done. End.

HAHA!!!! TAKE THAT MALLROY!!!! Oh for crying out loud. GIve up already. ou aren't going to win. WHy don't they just put her in prision or in Rehab to SHUT HER UP!!!!!

all right more free hp plubicity...*goes and gives crazy lady a pat on the back*

YESSSSSSSSSS!!! Harry isn't banned!!! Long live HArry Potter!

Wow, it took them this long to figure out what an idiot this woman was being? Man how many dismissed aoppeals will it take for the message to get through her thick skull? HARRY

Wow, it took them this long to figure out what an idiot this woman was being? Man how many dismissed aoppeals will it take for the message to get through her thick skull? HARRY POTTER IS

Wow, it took them this long to figure out what an idiot this woman was being? Man how many dismissed aoppeals will it take for the message to get through her thick skull? HARRY POTTER IS NOT

Wow, it took them this long to figure out what an idiot this woman was being? Man how many dismissed aoppeals will it take for the message to get through her thick skull? HARRY POTTER IS NOT DANGEROUS YOU

Wow, it took them this long to figure out what an idiot this woman was being? Man how many dismissed aoppeals will it take for the message to get through her thick skull? HARRY POTTER IS NOT DANGEROUS YOU PATHETIC

Wow, it took them this long to figure out what an idiot this woman was being? Man how many dismissed aoppeals will it take for the message to get through her thick skull? HARRY POTTER IS NOT DANGEROUS YOU PATHETIC LITTLE HUMAN!

Wow, it took them this long to figure out what an idiot this woman was being? Man how many dismissed aoppeals will it take for the message to get through her thick skull? HARRY POTTER IS NOT DANGEROUS YOU PATHETIC LITTLE HUMAN!

*begins ordering massive amounts of HP paperbacks off of half.com to send to Ms. L. Mallory* heehee this could be fun.....

*loses total faith in human race* stupid, dtupid, stupid. She puts a bad name on Christians. I'm christian and just as annoyed as all of you, though I think it's awesome that they voted on it without even discussion!

Potterdad, you must be mistaken. All of the schools I have ever gone to and still go to say the pledge of alligence and often we discuss religious themes and stories in class. Also, anyone can pray in school at any time of the day. Trust me, the "thought police" are not going to gang up on you if you do. I think if students can do this much (and wear crucifixes and david stars around their necks), then Harry Potter has no place being banned. It doesn't promote wicken (in fact, Harry and the rest of Hogwarts even celebrate Christmas!). It is up to the individual parent to protect their children in whatever way they feel fit. She has no right making these descisions for others, and I think she is very arrogant to believe she can. If she doesn't want her children reading the books, then fine by me. But, leave everyone else out of it!

I wish I could understand her an her thoughts. I just don't understand how she could hate the book so much. Has it ever personnally hurt her? As Christians, are we (myself included) not supposed to love our enemy (not that Harry Potter is an enemy, I'm just saying)? There's just so much more we could be fighting right now. I don't think it's fair to fans. In my school, we have the Bible in the library, and many other religious books. I'm not offended by those other books at all, so why does she have to be offended by Harry Potter?

does anybody have her phone number, address, email, etc???

Double-pwned. xD

It is so sad that the youth posting here are suffering from such tunnel vision. I don't agree with this woman fighting to ban the books in schools, but I won't go as far to demean her as a person, I don't know her. I am a huge HP fan!!!! All the nasty comments really just defeat the purpose- although many of you are just kids and just think you are smarter that everyone else, maybe you are but grow up a little, don't give people who are anti-HP any more fuel to their fire than they already have. Really, what good is it going to do to call someone a W#*RE??? Does that make you feel more successful in defending Jk's series? Honostly its awful for you all to preach preach preach this free speach and then turn around and ridicule people for their beliefs. So much hatred, its sad. Come on Harry fans, lets be better than that!!!!!

Heh, I'd also like to mention that my old teachers made me read worse things in school, with far more swearing and prostitution and violence and killing and greed... compared to these books, Harry Potter is a Sesame Street five-pager. And it's not a matter of literature, either. Harry Potter is literature, and so are those other books that I will not be naming. It's called 'the world is not some happy place where everything is nice and happy'. The world is cold and difficult and we deal with these problems every day. Simply getting rid of the Harry Potter books from schools won't make them go away. And besides, if the kids really wanted to read them (which they probably do, now that their mother has forbidden them) tons of people own them and they could easily be borrowed... *End rant*

This is a respsonse to Potterdad's comment on page 1: I understand what you're saying (although I dont agree with or support you) and I disagree with you for this reason: If you open many of the books in school libraries (state sponsered or not) quite a few will have reference to something you or someone else will not agree with. Since the subject at question here is witchcraft and you think it should be taken out of state-backed intstitutions then you should also take out The Lord of the Rings and at least two of Shakespeare's works (Macbeth and Hamlet). Ironically these literary pieces, even though they contain witchcraft/sorcery, are required text in most U.S. high schools.

WHAT?! She's STILL trying? What's she gonna do eventually, take it to the UN court of human rights? There are two reasons she cannot possibly win no matter what court she goes to. One, banning a book on purely religious grounds is, as far as I know, against the American constitution. Two, you cannot make a court case on something you've never read cover to cover. "Too long", apparently. But yet Mrs Malfoy... I mean Mallory... still seems to have time to make several court cases on these books. It's the worst excuse I've ever heard! It's times like these when I almost feel the purebloods have the right idea about Muggles. I'd think it wouldn't be against her faith or take too long to read the DICTIONARY, though. "Indoctrination" does not mean having a few books that some parents don't believe in on the shelves of a school library. It is in fact the exact opposite. Even asking/encouraging children to read these books is not indoctrination. They're quite free to read the Bible or anything else they please about any religion they please as well. Just reading HP does not mean they have to AGREE with it. It will teach them very useful skills to actually read a text they disagree with and think about why they disagree with it. The only person doing any indoctrination is Mallory herself, by basically suggesting that anything that could lead people away from Christianity is banned. That's indoctrinating children- and not even just her own- into Christianity. She's just throwing around words when she has no idea what they mean.

Posted by jillybean 5 minutes ago "It is so sad that the youth posting here are suffering from such tunnel vision. I don't agree with this woman fighting to ban the books in schools, but I won't go as far to demean her as a person, I don't know her." So you won't insult Mallory when you don't know her, yet you can insult all the commenters when you don't know them? Reallll smooth.

"Quitters never win, winners never quit, but those who never quit and never win are idiots!" I'm not sure who said that, but it's definitely true with Laura Mallory! I knew that the Georgia schoolboard would make the right decision=)

I agree with Jillybean that there's no reason for the name-calling. (although the temptation to refer to her as Malfoy is hard to resist) There are a lot of good arguments here as to why this was a good decision on behalf of the Georgia Schools...thanks for sharing your insight, everyone!

Kahrina, I agree with you. A person cannot make judgement about something they knows little about. You would think she would want to read them to try and better serve her purpose. However,posssibly the real reason is not that they are too long but that she may realize there is not much to back her up. Just a thought.

Jillybean can scold us for name-calling, and yet she can say, "although many of you are just kids and just think you are smarter that everyone else." That's some twisted logic right there.

I think the idea of sending the books to her and her kids is the best thing I've heard in a loooong time. Look guys, look up the article, it gives the city name, and then do a search on Anywho. It's not rocket science.

Why won't she give up??? Geeze. I should go to her house and smack her in the face.....WITH a Harry Potter book. Or...start a rally in front of her house. Haha. Well i'm glad that it was atleast voted against AGAIN.

Ambereyes, I didn't intend that comment to be demeaning, I was just saying its too bad name-calling gets in the way of a good arguement and leaves it open for discredit, and that may be something that comes with maturity. Nothing more.

Top 100! I really didn't see how they could ban it. This may be coincidental, but did you notice how much "Mallory" looks like "Malfoy?"

HAHAHHAHA IN YOUR FACE...NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU PROTEST ABOUT THE BOOKS BEING FULL OF WITCHCRAFT...YOU WILL NEVER EVER BAN THE HP BOOKS...

have they made hp toilet paper yet???we could roll her house...woot...

I guess we shouldn't be too surprised at her possible appeal. She believes very strongly in this. What we need to remember is that she is not the first and won't be the last so don't let it shock you when this comes up again in the next couple of months.

As if there was ever any doubt! ok fine if she doesnt want her kids reading it because she's going to insist on being ignorant then fine let her stop them but what on earth makes her think she has the right to stop other people's children from accessing the books!?!

She didn't have a chance of winning this case. And does this mean she won't go to court again?

I wonder if Laura Mallory will try to ban The Wizard of Oz next. After all, that Satan-inspired book also lures children to witchcraft by teaching them that if they click their heels three times, they'll be able to magically teleport themselves. It also promotes murder by teaching children to drop houses on witches. What a wicked, wicked book.