Alchemy revisited: OOP prediction confirmed

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No: HPFGUIDX 80149

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sleepingblyx" 
<sleepingblyx at y...> wrote:

However, I have a specific question-- we know J.K.R. likes to read, 
and I was sorting through the interviews, but is there any canon to 
suspect that she has actually even read the bible, or is a 
practicing Christian in the first place? Her more recent interviews 
seem to lead to the fact that she would be agnostic or even athiest 
(something about not really believing in any kind of magic, and that 
she wishes she could). 

Me (Bill):

This is from a CBC interview in July 2000; the entire interview can 
be found here (watch the wrap):

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/quickquotes/articles/2000/0700-cbc-
solomon.htm

E: When you talk about dealing with death and loss in the books, 
does this come out of your own - you've had loss with the loss of 
your mother - did it come out of a personal spirituality? I mean, 
are you are religious person? Does your spirituality come from a 
certain place? 

JK: I do believe in God. That seems to offend the South Carolinians 
more than almost anything else. I think they would find it...well 
that is my limited experience, that they have more of a problem with 
me believing in God than they would have if I was an unrepentant 
atheist. 

E: You do believe in God. 

JK: Yeah. Yeah. 

E: In magic and... 

JK: Magic in the sense in which it happens in my books, no, I don't 
believe. I don't believe in that. No. No. This is so frustrating. 
Again, there is so much I would like to say, and come back when I've 
written book seven. But then maybe you won't need to even say 
it 'cause you'll have found it out anyway. You'll have read it. 

E: But in your own life, I mean, are you a churchgoer? 

JK: (Nods) Mmm hmm. Well I go more than to weddings and 
christenings. Yes, I do. 

Bill