Voldemort as Christ figure; Ira, not Cole

[mongobongo38]

No: HPFGUIDX 37165

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "coriolan_cmc2001" <coriolan at w...> wrote:
> 
> Symbols - as opposed to allegories - are (as Freud said) open to 
> hyperinterpretation: that is, they can be (indeed, must be) 
> interpreted on multiple levels to be fully understood. Interpreting 
> JKR's Phoenix in an alchemical manner, or establishing a literary 
> link to Nesbit does not invalidate the Christian interpretation. 

As, of course, a Christian interpretation does not invalidate an 
alchemical one.  And of course, the first book was entitled Harry 
Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, not Harry Potter and the Holy 
Trinity.

Mongo