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TEACHER'S POTTER RANT

"A TEACHER refused to let a seven-year-old girl read a Harry Potter book to her because she was afraid of the boy wizard's spells, a tribunal heard yesterday.

Born-again Christian Sariya Allan, 47, feared she would be cursed if she heard the pupil read from JK Rowling's bestselling book.

She told the tribunal: "I explained that I had a problem with Harry Potter as JK Rowling had proclaimed that she is herself a witch and that the spells mentioned in the books are actually real spells."

So she said to the girl: "I don't do witchcraft" and made her read from a different book.

Ms Allan from Stockwell, South London, quit her £12,000-a-year teaching assistant job last July after she was disciplined by the school for the ban. She is now unemployed."

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