The religious content of Harry Potter

[Hans Andréa]

No: HPFGUIDX 128684

Ive been following the discussion about the religious content of Harry
Potter with great interest.

First of all I want to answer a poster who asked about the quote from
Rowling which Ive had as part of my signature for all this year. The exact
quote is: Every time I've been asked if I believe in God, I've said yes,
because I do, but no one ever really has gone any more deeply into it than
that, and I have to say that does suit me, because if I talk too freely
about that I think the intelligent reader, whether 10 or 60, will be able to
guess what's coming in the books.'' It can be found on
http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/2000/1000-vancouversun-wyman.htm.

Ive put this in my signature because in my opinion it is the most
significant thing shes ever said about Harry Potter. What shes saying is
that the plot CAN BE GUESSED! There IS a pattern, and if you know that
pattern, you can work out the message and the climax. And its so obvious,
that even a ten year old can work it out. And it is connected to the belief
in God! It just so happens that Im 60 and Im absolutely sure I have
discovered the pattern the books are based on.

It is irrelevant to this discussion whether the pattern itself is factual or
a patchwork of lies. Im not asking the members of this group to discuss the
pattern. As a loyal, contributing member of HPfGU Im doing my duty in
pointing out the pattern that Jo is basing Harry Potter on. 

Unfortunately so far very few members have taken the trouble to examine the
pattern to see whether it resembles Harry Potter. Thats because 
(a)	theyre not interested in it because they find spiritual stuff boring;
(b)	they dont agree with the pattern, therefore they cant conceive that Jo
could possibly have used it to base Harry Potter on;
(c)	Im inviting you to supply other reasons.

I have compiled a (comparatively) short summary of the pattern, with the
relevant symbols in Harry Potter. I did mention once that I was going to do
this, so here it is. This is actually a summary of my presentation to Accio.
Of course by that time well all have read Part 6, and people will expect me
to comment on that. 

Im splitting it up into four parts so people wont receive excessively long
emails.

In addition heres another quote which speaks volumes: Rowling, [] said
she couldn't answer the questions about the book's religious content until
the conclusion of book seven. 
http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/1999/1099-chictimes-tucker.html

Now, friends, why would she say that if there were no religious content in
the books? How can there still be people in this group who say they dont
believe there is a religious content? I must compliment Tonks on a wonderful
statement: If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a
duck, then may be it IS a duck. OK folks, you may or may not like ducks,
but what Im asking you to do is judge to see if maybe, just maybe, it COULD
BE a duck.

Just a short response to something Geoff Bannister said ages ago to my
statement that The Alchemical Wedding of Christian Rosycross was a
Christian story because of the first name of the main character. Geoff said
that first names didnt necessarily mean anything about the character of the
person. Well, if we use that as a measuring stick, we would have to conclude
that the main character in Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyon was named
Christian by coincidence. 

That, of course, is totally unreasonable. We all know that Pilgrims
Progress is an allegory of the journey of a Christian, and the name is 100%
relevant and used deliberately. It is obviously the same with The
Alchemical Wedding. The hero is called Christian because that name was
chosen deliberately to illustrate the point that The Alchemical Wedding is
a Christian story. 

Please note that everything I say is my opinion, but I thought it rather
boring to start every sentence like that.

I do hope that there will be lots of members of the group who can keeps
their minds open and make an honest comparison. The summary is really very
brief and very few reasons are given for why the symbols match. These can be
found in my previous posts, and via my website which is at the bottom of
this message.

Warm regards to all,
Hans



"if I talk too freely about [if I believe in God] I think the intelligent reader, whether 10 or 60, will be able to guess what's coming in the books." JK Rowling

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Hans Andra 
see you at Harry Potter for Seekers 
http://www.harrypotterforseekers.com



	
	
		
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