Justice, Wisdom, Trials, Harry, Dumbledore and Snape

[Porphyria]

No: HPFGUIDX 38436

I have just uploaded a long and unruly essay to the files section of 
HPforGrownups awkwardly entitled "The Conundrum of Justice and the 
Divine Adversary: Literary Parallels between Harry Potter and the Book 
of Job." I'm plugging it here in lieu of trying to post it; it would 
have simply been a post except it got too long and it benefitted from 
certain formatting functions best left to HTML.

The first half discusses Harry's experience of justice and the lack 
thereof and uses the Book of Job from the Hebrew Bible as a useful 
contextual background. It touches on some of this past week's responses 
to the Nel topic in that it concerns Dumbledore, his peculiar 
relationship to justice and his failure to be unequivocally "good" all 
the time. The second half is dedicated to all my fellow Snapefans on the 
list, and discusses how Snape's particular brand of menace functions 
with respect to the overall context of justice in the series, and 
compares him to the, erm, most intriguing character in Job. >:-D

So I'm pleading with anyone who would be interested in these things to 
please read it and respond. I wrote this just for the list and would 
love to hear what people think.

Thanks!
~~Porphyria


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