The Moscow prosecutor's office said Tuesday that it would not open a criminal case into allegations that the Harry Potter books incite religious hatred.
The office opened an investigation last week into the allegations, which were brought by a woman representing the International Fund for Slavic Literature and Culture. The woman thought that Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets "contained signs of religious extremism and drawing students into religious groups of a Satanic type," the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.
The books by J.K. Rowling are popular in Russia and have inspired a highly similar local version with a hero named Tanya Grotter, causing Potter's publishers to threaten a lawsuit for plagiarism.
Svetlana Petrenko, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office, said that investigators had found no basis for opening a criminal case.