Upon the release and explosive popularity of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter books fell under a wide ban within many Christian, Catholic, and Protestant communities, as well as Shia and Sunni Muslim communities for preaching witchcraft and sorcery to youth. Families feared for their children being loured to the occult, and risked exposure to Satanism from reading these magical tales. Groups across the world rallied to remove Potter novels from schools and public libraries alike, to excise the temptation to delve into sorcery and Satanism from the impressionable minds of their children. Many of the concerns of Satanism and the occult were abolished when the final installment of the series was released, and Christian themes leaked through.
"The Potter books have a serious tone of death, hate, lack of respect, and sheer evil."
In the United States alone, there were a minimum of six book burning's within Christian groups to purge the community of the poisonous books. Christians believed that these books were poisonous, and refused to listen to the words within the text. Many of the people leading these book burnings, or creating petitions had never actually read the books and formed opinions for themselves. Strictly thinking of only witch craft and sorcery, these books were removed from libraries, classrooms, and banned from more the 3/4 of all Christian groups in USA alone.