Catholic newspaper publishes debate about HP - what do people think?

[Tonks]

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<Schlobin at ...> wrote:
>
> Has anyone else been reading the stories about the debate about HP 
in 
> the Catholic press?
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> I'd love to hear people's thoughts.
> 

Tonks:
Interesting article. I had not been following the discussion if 
there has been one. I can see the point of the man who fears a 
Gnostic interpretation. That could happen. I don’t think that is the 
way the author intended it, however. I think the message is very 
clear and very simple, but I am rather shocked that people from the 
Vatican of all places can’t see it.  But then the Vatican reported 
on it, but the men in the debate were not from the Vatican. They 
were a Doctor and a College professor. We do not know if they have 
any theological training. I suspect not, or they would have seen the 
obvious message of the book.

The difference between the Muggle world and the Wizard world is that 
the Wizard is a person who is aware of the spiritual world and the 
deeper truth that exist around them. All of the monks that I know 
just love the HP books.  Anyone with any theological training should 
be able to see what Harry became. It just jumps right off the page.  
He is Everyman (each of us) transformed into Christ. 

Tonks_op