Rowling and Philosophy

[dimercury7]

No: HPFGUIDX 53619

Hello everybody... I'm a college student at FU (Fordham University in 
NYC but we all just like to call it FU to irk the Jesuits who hate 
being known as FU) Anyways... I'm a philosophy major, and one of my 
particular concentrations is philosophy and literature... At the 
moment I'm taking a verrrry intresting class on the Lord of the Ring 
trilogy and Philosophy ( 
http://www.fordham.edu/prospective/Whats_New/Course_Uses_Lord_of_9952.
html ) ... tres interesting - we've covered everything from the 
nature of evil to free will to philosophy of ecology. (and trust me - 
there is all sorts of information on LoTR out there especially from 
the 60's... more contemporary a new book on Tolkien and philosophy 
will be published soon from the same folks who brought you the 
philosophy books on the Matrix, Simposons and Seinfeld)...

In that vein, I was wondering if anyone else is interested in the 
philosophy that can be seen in and/or explained by the HP series. 
There is soooo much to go in to, such as whether or not V is the 
ultimate evil in the world, or is he just a representation of the 
ultimate failings of mortals (ala Plato)... mmmm - stuff like this 
makes my philosophic mouth water... anyway, I can and most definatly 
want to wax eloquently on such topics if anyones out there wants to 
hear them, and I especially would love it if anyone else out there 
has such theories....