Every year the Harry Potter books are up on the list of books of people wanting to ban. A main reason for this is because people believe the books are promoting witchcraft. But what is really witchcraft? To me, witchcraft is just a form of a ritual. A ritual is a set of actions performed with symbols. With witchcraft the ritual is casting of a spell, even though it is a very fast ritual. One would have to cast the spell in a certain way, saying certain words, and for potions mix certain items together in a certain way. When one is casting a spell they have to pay attention to the signs and symbols because if the signs and symbols are wrong then the spell is no completed.
With religious services, they are mainly based on rituals. The religious leader says certain words and act in a certain way. The way on how the religious leader conducts is based on symbols. Some people believe if one performed the service based on the symbols then there be a result. The results will be slower and not in a way someone would expect.
To me, religious services and witchcraft are both rituals. Although they are both very different and used for different reasons. They both had to be performed in certain ways, have words said in a certain way, and both have symbols. They both are used to get results even though the results are different. The results may for different things and may have different timely for the results. So some religious services may count as a ritual as the same for some witchcraft. In the end they are loosely based on the same foundations of a ritual.
If some people want to banned the Harry Potter book because they have witchcraft in them then the same people should look at the religious services and then try banned them.
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