Redemption, Child Abuse, and Literary Taste

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No: HPFGUIDX 147682

> BAW:
> JKR has stated that she is a Christian and that anyone who knows 
> this should be able to figure out the ending.  Christianity is 
> all about redemption.  A central teaching of the religion is that 
> God became human in the person of Jesus Christ who gave his life 
> not for good, righteous people, but for the worst sinners.  He
> came to seek and save the lost, the sinful, the broken, the 
> unloved.  And who is more of all those things than Tom Riddle?
 

michelle says: 

Christianity is all about redemption however these books appeal to 
people who are not only Christian but all other religions and the non-
religious as well.  To myself, and I am sure many others as well, it 
would be bad literature to redeem someone like LV just because the 
writer is a Christian.  I am glad that there are people in the world 
who can forgive others no matter what they have done, but this is 
literature not reality. I read to be entertained not to be told that 
I should "forgive and forget" and "turn the other cheek".  I will get 
my morals from the Bible, thank you very much, not from the fiction I 
choose to entertain myself with.

-michelle, who is also a Christian