Baptism/Christianity in HP: was Looking for God in Harry Potter

[leslie41]

No: HPFGUIDX 153476

> Tonks:
> Also I have wondered for some time if DD wasn't the officiant at the 
> christening.  I think that after the baptism using the holy water, 
> in place of chrism (the blessed olive-oil and balsam mixture used on 
> the forehead and sometimes the hands) he used maybe olive-oil and a 
> drop or two of blood from Fawkes, or a mixture of olive-oil, balsam 
> and Fawkes blood. This would have given Harry an extra protection, 
> an extra grace, in addition to his mother's sacrifice. Perhaps his 
> mother's sacrifice protected his body and the blood of Fawkes 
> protected his soul.
> 
> Tonks_op
> (a high-church Episcopalian)
>

Leslie41:
You know, it occurs to me that Harry's scar is on his forehead in just 
the place that he would have been baptized!  

I never thought of that until your post.  Certainly more evidence that 
the baptism might have provided him with some sort of spiritual 
protection.