Laura Mallory v. Harry Potter

Over at the Washington Post Emil Steiner Takes A Poke At a suburban Atlanta mother who will soon resume her quest to “protect” America’s children from the dark arts by banishing all J.K. Rowling books from school libraries.

On May 29th Gwinnett Superior Court will hear her appeal of the Georgia Board of Education’s decision that Harry Potter is, in fact, safe for juvenile consumption. The hearing will serve as a review of that ruling from last December, which effectively determined that the books’ merits (such as encouraging kids to read) far out-weighed any perceived thaumaturgy.