There were some concerns over the violence and the increasingly dark tone of the later books in the series. Rowling’s books shifted the censors’ attention to fantasy with challenges asserting that Harry Potter glorified magic and the occult, confusing children and leading them to attempt to emulate the spells and curses they read about.
Prior to 1999, most challenges had to do with sex, the human body or “inappropriate” language ( Dunne), with most of the books themselves falling into the realistic fiction genre. In an interesting twist, the Harry Potter books changed the focus of book challenges in schools and public libraries.
WHEN DID HARRY POTTER BOOK 1 COME OUT SERIES
in 1999, made the list of the top 100 most frequently challenged books of the decade 1990-1999 (#48), even though they were only out for part of one year of the decade! And, of course, the series topped the most frequently challenged list of 2000-2009. The Harry Potter series, three of which were published in the U.S. Sorcerer’s Stone was the most frequently challenged book in the U.S. Since 1999, when the first book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, was published in the U.S., Harry has been challenged. Spoiler alert: Harry and his friends defeat Voldemort and his disciples, the Death Eaters, in the end. Throughout the series, Voldemort returns in increasingly malevolent incarnations, and Harry and friends must defeat him and save the Wizarding world as well as the Muggles (non-magic folk) from the evil that wants to enslave or obliterate them. Harry learns that his parents were killed by Lord Voldemort, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, the most evil wizard in history, but that he, Harry, survived that attack with only a lightning-shaped scar (or so he believes). In case you’ve been hiding under a rock or sworn off reading since 1997, Rowling’s seven-book series features Harry Potter, a boy who finds out he is a wizard at age 11 when he receives his invitation to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Rowling’s boy wizard series has faced more than its share of attempts to see the books limited, banned or even burned. In the twenty years since Harry Potter first arrived on the publishing scene, J.K.
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