I guess everyone has a right to his/her own personal opinion, and perhaps this new pope sees things differently from his predecessor. I'm a Catholic and I see nothing wrong in reading the HP books, or any other kind of fantasy book for that matter. It's not the act of reading the things that is bad, but doing them. If this keeps on going, we'll be banning the idea of their being any terrorism at all in the world. It's bad too isn't it?

Saying that the books are completely evil though is totally ridiculous.