[HPforGrownups] Re: decision for VWII

[Janet Anderson]

No: HPFGUIDX 102195

Christina said:

> >Janet - Part of the point of the Second Wizarding War is that >*everyone*
>is going to have to decide, by word
> >or deed, where they want to be, from children and teenagers on >up to 
>aged
>wizards.
>
>Christina: You probably didn't mean it this way, but what you are saying is
>yet another correlation to Christianity that others are finding in the
>books. I know JKR says she didn't write them to be an allegory but I'm
>finding lots of interesting information in the essays I've read.

Who sez I didn't mean it that way? :)

I think JKR said she was a Christian, and the fact that she also said she 
wasn't writing an allegory doesn't mean there won't be Christian overtones 
in the books.  And anyway, it's probably very difficult if not impossible to 
read (or write) a book about the fight between good and evil and not
be reminded of Christianity at some point in the proceedings.

But we have it straight from Dumbledore:  It's our choices that are 
important.  This is, for example, the thing which keeps me liking Snape even 
with the reams of evidence that he is a grade-A stinker -- he chose good, 
deliberately and knowingly, and despite what it might have cost him (and 
maybe still is costing him).  I even tolerate Mundungus Fletcher, who steals 
Sirius's silver when he's a guest in Sirius's house.  (Hmm. I've just 
thought of something ... I'll get back to it.)

As someone has pointed out, Dumbledore's standards, and those of the Order 
of the Phoenix, seem to parallel the Parable of the Vineyard:  anyone who 
chooses good and rejects evil, no matter how late or how incompletely, will 
be welcome in the fight against evil.


Janet Anderson
(also a Christian, so those of you who will disregard my theories on that 
basis may feel free to do so)

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