Harry Potter Censorship

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As you guys might have been able to tell, I love Harry Potter. Harry Potter is one of the best series ever and the author, J. K. Rowling, is the first author to ever become a billionaire off their series of books. It truly is a magical book that follows three friends, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger, on their adventures. It is a great book to start as a third grader and read throughout grade and middle school. There are many deaths through out the series with most of them appearing in the last two books which if you really enjoyed the books and the characters, you will cry over. I have cried several times over and every single time when I re-watch the movies there are those certain deaths that really hit me hard. I'm not going

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