Rowling resonates (Was:Re: denominations on list )(Was: Book Burners of Doom)

[annemehr]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "lunalovegoodrules" 
<severussnape at s...> wrote:
> Not sure replying to this thread is OT, in most cases... For 
myself, 
> at any rate, what I take most fundamentally from Rowling [...]is a 
> peculiar, particular parsing of what I have referred to in a 
number 
> of posts now as an ethical imperative, framed in a dialogue that 
> strikes me as rather like secular Calvinism. Since that is how I 
> frame my own so-called spiritual registers, it is not surprising 
much 
> of what Rowling writes resonates with me. Whether this effect, 
which 
> I am assuming is not operating in myself alone, but in the 
responses 
> of some others, perhaps many others, as well, is a preach or a 
breach 
> is hardly the point, I think.
> 
> Some of the points regarding the so-called spiritual that I take 
from 
> Rowling are <snip points>
> dan (of BIC LIGHTER and ANOTHER HARRY)

Yes, Rowling does indeed resonate with some number of us.  Hans 
(Ivan Vablatsky) and Iris, as well as myself, come to mind, if I am 
not mistaken in the first two (I'd hate to put words in anyone's 
mouth).  I think we have quite varied spiritual approaches (mine's a 
Catholic background), and yet we are reacting to Rowling on this 
level.  I do also agree with all your points that I snipped.

I hope anyone who experiences this "resonance" feels free to post 
about it if they have a mind to, because I would like to understand 
what is going on here.  For myself, I have found the books to be an 
antidote to bitterness and feelings of futility, just at a time when 
I needed that.  I just can't figure out *why*.  Sometimes I read 
parts of them just to get "cheered up," and other times I worry 
about whether somebody's going to die or not.  There are other books 
that deal with someone carrying on and trying to do what's right in 
the face of obstacles, but they don't have the same effect on me.

Of course, it's also a bit scary that I've let it so deeply in, as 
there are two books to go and I don't know where we're going to end 
up!

Just one last thought: I wonder if there is anyone reading this who 
doesn't react this way to JKR's books, but to other books instead?  
What books would they be?

Annemehr
hoping this post isn't so completely personal as to be useless to 
anybody else...