Book 7, Dumbledore

[Barbara Kraus]

No: HPFGUIDX 153997

  Tonks:
  I think that DD is dead. I too wondered what Fawkes was doing. It
  was something very different, something meant for DD alone. (IMO)
  And it also connected to something deep in Harry the same as it did
  in COS. I think that there is some connection there between what
  happened in the chamber of secrets and what was happening to DD
  under the tower. (As I am typing this I do see a connection. Since
  I have said that the COS was the tomb of Christ, and I see DD as a
  symbol of Christ, to me it ties together. And I think that JKR meant
  to tie those two images together in that moment.) I wondered if
  Fawkes song were some sort of healing song. A resurrection song.
  Since I think that DD is a Christ figure I do think that we will see
  him again. <<<


I think this is a wonderful story and a world I would like to 
enter...but do you really think that J.K. Rowling was trying to 
write in parallels to the Bible?  I think you do a disservice to 
her...  The Harry Potter stories are so well-written - I have 
seldom in my life read books where I felt like I had physically 
entered into that world - I have felt that with the Harry Potter 
books - but - this is a woman who was down & out and started 
writing in a coffee shop (or something similar) with her young 
daughter at her side - from everything I have read, when I read 
the biblical comparisons here, I can only think...oh, please.  
Give me a break.

Best,

Barbara