[Aquinasfan]

Does anyone have even a halfway credible claim? Somebody besides "harrypotteristhedevil.com"?

Glad you asked. Here's the true story about a boy who played with a ouija board.

[alpowolf]

Hmmm...I suppose I just have to take their word for it. And of course they have no axe to grind, right? Anything from someone slightly neutral?

If this is the big menace that you guys say it is, there should be more than one anecdote from 1949.

[JenB]

Your link was about an incident in 1949 - that's over 20 years before Rowling was born, so it's not tied to Potter.

Incidentally have you come across a spell which is proven - use the scientific method, if you know it - to actually work? I never have, and I know several dozen Harry Potter fans.

As for the poster talking about the girl who was 'writing spells in her bedroom' - sounds like the kid needs a lesson in reality, and maybe some attention from Mom and Dad. Don't blame Harry Potter for every bad thing that's happened in the last three years...