Melbourne, July 02: Boy wizard Harry Potter has failed to weave his magic at a Christian school in the southern city of Melbourne, which has banned all five J K Rowling books about his adventures from its library.
"The Potter books portray and promote witchcraft as normal," Bert Langerak, principal of the Maranatha Christian College, told Melbourne radio station 3AW on Wednesday. "It's a problem because as Christians we would say witchcraft and that kind of thing is not good, and yet Rowling portrays it as being good."
Rowling's latest book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, was released last month and immediately shot to the top of best seller lists in Australia and around the world.