[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore, goats, and government vouchers to go to Hogwarts? :)

[Sister Mary Lunatic]

No: HPFGUIDX 1360

<sarcasm>
Sacrificing goats?  They got a nerve criticizing something that Jesus Christ
himself did (well... it was a lamb, not a goat, that they took to the
Temple, but it amounts to the same thing).  Still sounds like kids in a
Bible class might well learn to sacrifice animals if they take the bible
literally.
</sarcasm>


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-----Original Message-----
From: Vivienne O'Regan [mailto:vivienne at caersidi.demon.co.uk]
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 11:31 PM
To: HPforGrownups at egroups.com
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Dumbledore, goats, and government vouchers to
go to Hogwarts? :)

>On the subject of goats, I notice that Dumbledore talked about his
>brother who hexed goats, and now the recent (Sun., August 27, 2000)
>editorial in the San Jose Mercury News by Mark Purdy that goes
>against school vouchers because they could subsidize "witch
>schools" that teach kids to sacrifice goats.  Understandably
>real-life witches are angered by the misrepresentation and I
>feel the same way, but I wonder if his remarks were meant as a
>tongue-in-cheek though badly worded nod to JKR...

That sounds a little too obscure a reference. (Also, a defect in this
sort of thinking if he is seeking to continue the witchcraft=devil
worship connection - given the popular image of the devil as a goat
 - why would 'devil worshipers' wish to sacrifice goats?)

The goat sacrificing remark and the West Coast connection sounds
if anything rational as more a dig in the direction of some of the Afro
Caribbean and South American magical religions in which animal sacrifice
is still utilized.


Vivienne