[HPforGrownups] Re: Baptism/Christianity in HP: was Looking for God in Harry Potter

[Magpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 153639

> Tonks:
> Looks like rain to me...

Magpie:
Looks like..I don't even know what to me.

Could you just present a premise that can be understood and argued?  Because 
right now all I've got is a hodge-podge of anything in the books that makes 
you think about anything in the Bible, some of it contradicting itself, with 
different characters switching roles when necessary.  When something doesn't 
really fit you change it to make it fit, some associations I don't even 
think are right or better echo other, more obvious, imagery that isn't the 
one you want.  Vividly drawn characters are completely erased to just their 
names (sometimes not even that if their name isn't right) with nothing added 
to them that I can see.  Things and people in canon are turned into symbols 
for other things that already exist as themselves within canon.  And 
throughout it all there's this framing device where you pre-emptively claim 
that if I don't find your argument convincing at all you're still right and 
I'm just not seeing it, which is just not cool at all.  I think I could get 
into an interesting religious theory that went through all the books in an 
exciting way--it's not like I haven't seen the potential for some myself 
over the years.  But I don't see it here.

-m