[HPforGrownups] Re: Religion in US, UK, Hogwarts Schools (was I saw (more than) three ships ...

Rebecca Stephens rsteph1981 at yahoo.com
Fri May 6 18:00:36 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 128553


--- pippin_999 <foxmoth at qnet.com> wrote:

> Not everyone 'gets' allusion, and those who do bring
> to it their own
> varied experience and frame of reference. That's
> part of the game. 
> Because we don't know what Sirius's frame of
> reference is, we don't
> know whether he was alluding to the lines, "Remember
> Christ our 
> Savior was born on Christmas Day" or not. 

I have to disagree.  I think that, though it's not
directly stated, that we the audience are absolutely
meant to interpret it that way and that to try to
interpret it any other way is really, really
stretching.

Rebecca


		
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