"Little surprise, then, that two decades
of efforts to protect children from imaginary spells have made no
difference at all. Harry Potter titles have sold more the 500 million copies worldwide.
As it happens, this is Banned Books Week
in the United States, so the timing of Father Rehill’s ban is richly
ironic, but Harry and his friends are no longer the chief targets of
book-banning adults, presumably because most adults are now aware that
attempting to keep children from reading Harry Potter is about as
effective as banning air."
