 NeeNee Omniscient Omnipotent Pie Maker
Tobi raised his hand and said thoughtfully, "Some wizards who are less friendly to Muggles would consider the original story propaganda. A story doesn't have to be a reworking of an original tale to be propaganda, it's still a biased story for one side of an argument or another. Beedle Bard's version of The Wizard and the Hopping Pot Clearly favours Muggles, and the version Cela told us is Anti-Muggle, they're both biased on opposite sides. As for Beatrice Bloxam, that is censorship in its own way, which is a tool of propaganda, used in card stacking to keep the scales unbalanced for whatever side you wish. Bloxam's side was that children should never hear such gruesome tales. And when her books were banned, that was censorship again, for another side of an issue, that people shouldn't be exposed to such fluffy sugary tripe. It isn't right on either side, but who can tell where the truth would lie? especially in a fictional story, we claim creative license and leave it at that. Personally I don't think it's right to ban or destroy books at all, it's our own responsibility to govern what we're ready to read, but I've gotten off topic again, haven't I?"
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