Importance of Audience (was Re: Dumbledore or Snape)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 141461

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:

> Pippin:

> Those are difficult choices, not the sort of simplistic explications 
of
> morality some expect to find in children's literature. But children 
are
> routinely presented with some very problematic and complex morality 
> tales  in our culture --  any child being educated in one of the 
Abrahamic 
> religions will know about the sacrifice of Isaac, for example.

Geoff:
The difference here being that Abraham was showing great faith in God 
because he had been promised that he would be the father of a great 
nation. 

However, he was prepared to go to the wire to obey God and show that he 
had faith in him. But he was never called to go the last step of 
sacrificing Isaac so a comparable situation to that of Snape and 
Dumbledore didn't actually come into play.

This incident is not just in the Abrahamic religions; the parts played 
by Moses, Abraham and Elijah were an important part of Jesus' teachings 
about faith in the New Testament.