I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them.
Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.
Do not tell me what to do and do not tell me what I can't do.
There's no book or play or series or anything that speaks to everyone, because then it wouldn't speak to anyone.
A person without curiosity may as well be dead.
It didn't happen in the 70s. So I had a whole decade when I was writing these books and maybe there was a little bit here or there but there was no big effort to ban books.