SYM: <>< and a bit of DENIAL

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 75697

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "terryljames76" 
<terryljames at h...> wrote:

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> The <>< in the title line is a fish, and is intended to warn the 
> reader that Christian ideas--or at least my interpretation of 
> Christian ideas--are referred to herein.  
> 
>  The 
> only thing he can do is the only thing, in the end, that we can all 
> do--try to make the right choices, and do the right thing, and 
stand 
> up for what is right and what is good.
> 
> Terry


Geoff:

As a practising Christian, it has been interesting to read in other 
sites the differing views of Christians on HP; I find myself 
disagreeing with friends who say that the books are totally wrong and 
want to stop people having access to them. One argument which is 
advanced is the statement made by Dumbledore in PS the "death is the 
next great adventure" and some folk seem to have latched on to this 
being reincarnation. I cannot see this and consider this comment to 
be in tune with the Christian hope of life after death.

Coming to your comments above, I have always felt that much of the 
philosophy of HP can be summed up in Dumbledore's comments in 
COS: "It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more 
than our abilities". This, in real life, is the crus of Chritian 
faith and, in HP, it is perhaps the lynchpin of Harry's.