[HPforGrownups] Re: God in the WW?
James Bennett
jbenne27 at tampabay.rr.com
Tue Jul 5 23:18:25 UTC 2005
No: HPFGUIDX 132066
Tania wrote:
> This is the question: Does the WW believe in God? He asks this
> because they celebrate Christmas with a dinner and exchange
> presents, but nothing is ever heard about going to church or
> anything like that. Any thoughts?
jlnbtr wrote:
> I think they do believe in God (in a christian way, IMO), but they
> could be afraid of how the muggle world feels about them, remember
> when Harry was writing an essay about how pointless witch burning
> was, I bet that if wizards start hanging around muggles they would
> again be *burned*, maybe not literally, but at least sent to
> prison.
James:
I think JKR leads us down the path to let us make up out own mind while
helping us lean a little bit on the side that they do. With books like this and many churches saying that HP is bad I think she took the middle road and didn't take sides and left it to us the reads to come to our own conclusion.
James
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