J.K. Rowling: Censorship Essay

Censorship is strictly review by an authority of any material before publication or dissemination, with legal right to prevent, alter, or delay its appearance. Censorship for authors is that they have to face what people believe that certain of their books contains material that is objectionable on political, moral, or religious grounds and should be banned from classrooms in order to protect their children from exposures to allegedly harmful ideas. Most school boards have responded by physically removing books that are written by some author from school library shelves (“Censorship”).

J.K. Rowling is well-known for her book, Harry Potter, which has been censor and banned by school libraries. As a child, Rowling enjoyed reading and writing about fantasy stories to her little sister. Rowling’s first story, she wrote during her childhood, is about a rabbit. How did she get the idea of Harry Potter?   J.K. Rowling develops the idea for a story of a young boy attending a school of wizardry while she had a four - hour - delayed train trip to London. In 1995, she completed the first manuscript, which was rejected by twelve publishing house until a year later she was accepted by Editor Barry Cunningham from the small publisher Bloomsbury (“J.K. Rowling”).

J.K. Rowling’s works on Harry Potter have been heavily attacked for her topics on witchcraft, sorcery, and Satanism, which the opponents say the book promotes interest in the occult for children. The protest against Harry Potter, the book, follows a tradition that has been growing since the early 1980s in the U.S. (“Is Harry Potter Evil? By Judy Blume”). The reason from keeping the book away from young readers generally is centered around witchcraft - but other complaints focus on the series' theme about challenging adult authority: "the books contain lying and smart-aleck retorts to adults," and "the books will lead children to hatred and rebellion," and again "the books are telling children over and over again...