Why can't he be?

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In a message dated 5/9/2004 6:19:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time, "ladyramkin2000" <ladyramkin2000 at yahoo.co.uk> writes:

>Sylvia (who doesn't really believe a 17 year-old boy can be a Christ 
>figure and is clutching at straws) 

Sylvia wasn't the only one to say this, but it's the most recent.  Why can't Harry be a Christ figure?  I don't really have much religion at all, but from what I understand of religion, Christ was (is?  Should I be talking about him in the present or past tense?), in simplest terms, a man who saved others through his suffering.  Right?  Or am I totally off base?  With that understanding, Harry is a man.  As the centaurs said, "This one's nearing manhood".  He's a man who is saving the Wizarding World through his suffering.  No one can deny he's suffered in this fight.  I don't understand why alot of listees keep saying "A seventeen year old boy can't be a Christ figure".  Is it the fact that he's seventeen that stops the belief?  I find that very hard to believe.  That even if he fights, sacrifices everything he has, and dies to save his world, he won't be able to be considered a Christ figure because he's seventeen.  *shrugs* It just doesn't make any sense to me.

Oryomai
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