The Hidden Key to Harry Potter

[ggershman77]

No: HPFGUIDX 60274

I havent read the book, only an excerpt from Chapter 2, and I found 
some of his points compelling, but overall I thought he was pushing 
the Chrisitianity analogy a bit much.

The books are definetly deeper than they first appear (check out 
http://hpprogs.blogspot.com/, my site).  But I think Rowling is 
talking a more general moral sense, rather than a specific religious 
sense.

That being said, his book does have some good analysis of stuff from 
the books.  My personal favorite is his understanding (and this is 
spot on, no question) that when Harry and Ron discuss the diary 
(from CoS), Ron's arguments that books can be dangerous, and all the 
examples he gives of deadly books, is a parody of Rowlings critics 
who say her books will cause children to take up the occult.  Harry, 
of course, is more curious than that, and dives right in.  If you 
look for the publisher's site (www.zossima.com) you can find an 
excerpt.

Greg

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Bob Hutch" 
<hochman_1999 at y...> wrote:
> Has anyone read the this book by John Granger?
> 
> The book presents the author's theory that J.K. Rowling is an 
> Inklings author, that is a Christian novelist in the mold of C.S. 
> Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.
> The book presents complying evidence from each of the first four 
> books and presents the suthor's predictions for the next three 
books.
> 
> I am sure fans who have read the book have some strong opinions 
> about the author's theory.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Bob Hutch