Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/03/11/puritan-discovers-harry-potter.html
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Heck, I remember when the biggest megachurch in town bought a full-page ad in the paper to denounce the evils of Harry Potter. We’re not that far removed from Puritanism.
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RW nutjob Ken Cuccinelli got his start as a local representative trying to remove Snow White and Harry Potter from school libraries because of witchcraft.
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I imagine castigation of house-elves slavery is not in character, though?
But I’ll give it a spin, sampling here and there does not sound bad.
They got rid of all the good parts, like the names
Nicholas’s purported baptismal name–“If-Jesus-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned”
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Witchfinder General
That’s who Witchfinder Sergeant Shadwell reports to, eh? I wonder how many nipple’s he’s got?
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Yeah, and puritans named some of their children O Be Joyful, and beat them when they were.
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His friends called him “Iffy”.
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He was also miffed about the exoneration of the last Salem witch:
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