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Charles9/30/2009 9:29:06 am PDT

Whoa.

JK Rowling lost out on Presidential Award because George Bush believed Harry Potter encouraged witchcraft.

JK Rowling lost out on the U.S.’s highest civilian honour because members of the Bush administration objected to the author’s perceived promotion of sorcery, a new book claims.

Matt Latimer, a former speech writer for George W Bush, states in Speechless: Tales Of A White House Survivor that as a result her name was not included amongst those receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

The award acknowledges contributions to the U.S. national interest, world peace or cultural endeavours.

But according to Mr Latimer’s new book, plans for Ms Rowling to receive the Medal of Freedom were nipped in the bud by officials in the previous administration.

In Speechless, Latimer writes that ‘narrow thinking’ led ‘people in the White House to actually object to giving the author J K Rowling a presidential medal because the Harry Potter books encourage witchcraft’.