In "Ban Harry Potter," the author uses hypostatization, faulty analogy, and false use of authority in an attempt to prove their point that Harry Potter books in school will inevitably cause children to "grow into suicidal nuts." First, Hypostatization is found in the second paragraph where it says, "History has shown that encouraging... drug addiction." This is hypostatization because the abstract concept of Harry Potter leading to drug addiction is not backed up with any evidence, but is still presented to the reader as concrete evidence. Second, the author compares children to flowers by saying, "a child's mind is like a flower, and reading is like water, and just as too much water can destroy a flower, too much reading can destroy a
