[HPforGrownups] Religion in HP

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 40466


Thursday, June 27, 2002, 9:43:30 AM, reincineir wrote:

r> ... in the Bible it
r> was said that "You shall not allow a sorcerer/ess to live." 

This is actually a mistranslation... (See below.)

r> Perhaps
r> wizards are Christian, and regard sorcery as different from wizarding 
r> magic (perhaps sorcery is what the Dark Wizards practice?) 

Nope, it's not that -- The King James version says "Witch".

Fact is, it's in any case a mistranslation -- The original word is
"poisoner", not witch/wizard/sorceress or whatever.

-- 
Dave