[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry's abilities

[Peg Kerr]

No: HPFGUIDX 9524

Amy wrote:

> Great post, fascinating thoughts, Charmian.
>
> I just looked back at the sermon I gave last month in which HP was
> just an example--I was talking about the power of stories to tell the
> truth through myth, fabrication, metaphor...in short, "lies" <snip>

Two of my favorite lines:

"Myths are lies, though lies breathed in silver" [C.S. Lewis]

"No.  They are true."  [J.R.R. Tolkien.  --this two line exchange was
reported in Humphrey Carpenter's _Tolkien: A Biography_ about the
conversation which eventually led to C.S. Lewis' conversion to
Christianity.]

and

"Oh, call it a lie if you like.  But a lie is a sort of myth.  And a myth
is a sort of truth . . . "
Edmund Rostand, _Cyrano de Bergerac_.