What is JKR's religious beliefs?

silveroak_us <silveroak_us@yahoo.com> silveroak_us at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 3 00:05:37 UTC 2003


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita 
Prince Winston) <catlady at w...>" <catlady at w...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Amy Gourley" <
amy at p...> 
> wrote:
> > I just thought of this and I realized I didn't know. I was 
chatting
> > with someone online who is 17 and their parents won't let 
them read
> > HP but she reads Lord of the Rings, Narnia etc. She said her
> > parents said she could read them because Tolkein and 
Lewis are
> > Christians. Isn't JKR one too? I don't want to start a debate 
but
> > I just never remember hearing about if she practices 
anything.
> 
> You mess around at the Goat Pad and find a bunch of 
interviews where 
> she says so, altho' NOT the jnterview where she told a 
Canadian paper 
> that she doesn't talk much about her religious faith because 
then 
> anyone who knew anything about Christianity could figure out 
how the 
> series is coming to end. http://www.geocities.com/
aberforths_goat/


Now me:
In several interviews, JKR has stated that she is active in the 
Church of Scotland and that her daughter was christened in the 
Church. You can search at Aberforth's Goat on the word "church" 
and find the interviews in their entirety.
She is as Christian as it comes.

**  Martin Miggs, the Mad Muggle **





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