[HPforGrownups] Sirius Black, God father

[Etha Williams]

No: HPFGUIDX 32559

--- Laura Hale <lhale at niu.edu> wrote:

> If this was true, than Harry Potter's parents could have indeed been
> practicing some sort of religion (and it would show kind of obviously that
> religion and magic are not in conflict.)

Wouldn't it be a bit hard to be a witch/wizard and be Jewish/Christian since
there are parts of the Old and New testaments decrying magic and witchcraft?
How would a witch/wizard explain that s/he was practicing a religion which
stated that s/he was doomed to hell?

> Are there other faiths that have god parents attached to them?

I'm not sure if any other religions have God parents strictly attached to them,
but I do know that my parents gave me a God mother even though they were not
practicing any religion at the time, so God parents can be a secular thing as
well as a religious thing.

Etha