I caught up to her (instant message) the next day; seems there had been yet another skirmish in her personal battle against inherited ignorance (my phrase = the kind that is passed from parents to children by restriction from certain kinds of information deemed evil). A simple request from a home-schooler for books about animals led to one or two that just happened to mention evolution... and the ensuing discussion between Our Librarian and the indignantly righteous parent of the young patron wended its inexorable non sequitur way to Harry Potter.

That is to say: Home-schoolers are such (to a 95% confidence level) because their parents are religious Fundies, to whom 'magic' is anathema - thus the snide remark about ritual cleanliness afer hearing the word 'enchanted'. ;-D

These are the same folks, mind you, who insist that the Earth is only 6000 years old, and that God put the dinosaur bones in to fool his people. Sounds to me like they're worshippng Loki.

Fox (distant cousin of Coyote)