Harry the Savior REvised!

[rbrown at cp.tamu-commerce.edu]

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Boy would Pat Robinson and the 700 Club have a field day
book burning with this one!
Well they condemned Galileo works too didn't they..hold it
Pat, don’t put me in the oven just yet (gulp/again).
Jesus is the greatest story ever told. Harry Potter will
become the 2nd. How?
Certainly not by insulting or mocking Jesus, but by
compliment, and literary example.

JKR did say that Harry would be like Jesus by the end of the
story. Mmnnn.....

Without quoting scripture verse for verse, and for the sake
of simple Dom, here is my take on the possibilities.

Good vs. Evil
Harry vs. Voldemort (and Draco first for practice)
Jesus vs. Satan 

Light overcomes darkness.
Jesus overcomes death.
Harry defeats Voltemort.

Jesus dies. 
Harry dies?

Jesus rises again reborn.
Harry rises from death (or a death curse again)?
(I have a better understanding of  A  Brief History of  Time
then that theory)

I and about 600 million others have such an emotional
relationship with Harry that the thought of him dying to
defeat finally Voltemort  is beyond my scope of vision. I
just can't see him dying. This isn't the making of a classic
tragedy IMHO.

Harry will have supernatural powers that no other wizard has
any knowledge of which will be the way he wins in the end. 

This is how Harry is like Jesus, and does not require him to
die to do it.
Jo isn't rewriting the New Testament but she is creating a
literature masterpiece that will insure her place in the
history of the worlds greatest writers. Of this I have no
doubt. 

I can't think of a classic that kills the hero and becomes a
classic in history.
Short of a “He is risen
” final chapter of course. I
just don’t believe she will go there.

I do believe in the imagination of Jo Rowling to probably
come up with an ending that will knock our socks off, and
how it parallels with the life (and death) of Jesus is to be
seen. I am certain, that just as she has placed a new light
in the struggle between good and evil, she will cast a new
light of understanding of the significance of Jesus
to the world by metaphor of events in her story. Canon
supports that. 


By prognostication Harry is the Wizard world's Messiah but
does not have to atone for the sins of that world. No where
in the canon does it state or hint to this. He just has to
channel his power when the time comes to defeat their
greatest enemy and win the war.

JkRowling did say last year at the Edinburgh Book Festival
that she could kill Harry in the end (indirectly 'You assume
he is going to live...").

IMO he will live, just like Tom Sawyer lived, and Mark Twain
became a legend, and so shall Jo Rowling. Check back with me
in 150 years if I'm wrong and tell me I was full of it. 



~bob