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Welcome to “Fahrenheit 451”, where book burning and banning is a part of everyday life! Sound unbelievable? Think again! This unimaginable effort does occur. However, forbidding literature actually makes the works more popular than it was to begin with. Banning is another example of unneeded and unwanted censorship. Also, it deprives children of reading a story they may enjoy. People all over the globe have been trying to get the “Harry Potter” series banned from schools, this action would be unjust and absurd. Those who want the “Harry Potter” series banned in schools believe that by doing so, less children will have a chance to read it. The fact is, less children will be able to read it or have it read to them merely at school. "The surest way to get everyone to read a book is to ban it." (Sue Oliveira, Missouri librarians latest to discover: Banning makes books popular) There are still public libraries, there are still book stores and there are still friends, which, is where children always go to get prohibited information. The ideas of witchcraft in the story only