[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...

[Outlaw76]

If I say Allakazam! and turn the key in my car, it starts!
Of course, I once said 'Let there be light' and hit the light switch and it came on too.
Mysterious stuff, kinda creepy isn't it?

[Aquinasfan]

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

Listen to the interviews with the exorcist for the archdiocese of NY linked in #152