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the popular fiction series is an "evil" attempt to indoctrinate children in the Wicca religion."

Pretty much. The protagonist is a wizard or warlock, so the book serves to normalize witchcraft. If you need evidence, just go to Amazon and read the kids' reviews of her books. Or consider the words of the media officer of the english Pagan Federation:

Media officer Andy Norfolk said: "In response to the increased queries coming from youngsters we established a youth officer, not to promote paganism, because that would be against pagan ethics, but merely to answer these queries and allow someone to offer advice and information.
"It is quite probably linked to things like Harry Potter, Sabrina The Teenage Witch and Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Every time an article on witchcraft or paganism appears, we had a huge surge in calls, mostly from young girls."

According to Rowling:

Harry's author, J.K. Rowling, now richer than the queen and the wealthiest woman in show business, told Malcolm Jones in a Newsweek interview, "I get letters from children addressed to Professor Dumbledore (headmaster at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the book setting), and it's not a joke, begging to be let into Hogwarts, and some of them are really sad. Because they want it to be true so badly they've convinced themselves it's true."

Sadly, HP is just the tip of the iceburg when it comes to the portrayal of the occult in books marketed to teenagers. In fact, if you walk through Barnes and Nobles sci-fi/fantasy section, you will find little else.

This woman's attempt to ban HP won't succeed, but her effort is commendable.

Sadly, there have been and will always be people who simply cannot tell the difference between fantasy and reality. It happens and we have to accept that.

But commending a woman for trying to remove a series of books from school libraries that she in all likelihood has never even read herself is detestable.

Are you even aware the woman is so far removed from reality she has actually implied the Harry Potter series is to blame for recent school shootings (most of which were committed by adults)?

I would like to ask Laura Malloy (and you) a simple question:

What about Lord Of The Rings? Or The Wizard of Oz? The Chronicles of Narnia? All those books contain depictions of the use of magic, so why isn't Laura (or you) out there trying to remove those books from school shelves?

Either you should be consistent or be called hypocrites. It's as simple as that.