A Christian school in Melbourne, Australia, has banned Harry Potter books saying it promotes witchcraft as normal.
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J K Rowling has till now written five books about the boy wizard.
Bert Langerak, principal of the Maranatha Christian College, told Melbourne radio station 3AW: "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 bestseller lists in Australia and around the world.
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