[HPforGrownups] Banning the books/Request (Harry live or die?)

[fair wynn]

No: HPFGUIDX 159386



> >Carol
> > My name is Carol and you could say that I am a Harry Potter fan.
> > I have read and seen every Harry Potter book and even seen all
> > the movies that are out about him.
> >
> > Don't know if you heard about that woman that wants to ban the
> > Harry Potter books, but I think she is crazy.  She said that the
> > books teach our kids witchcraft.  I think she is nuts.
>
>Geoff:
>Let me make it very clear to start with that I am an evangelical
>Christian and I do not agree wioth these groups. When the books
>first emerged, I allowed myself to be led by people leaning that way
>in my own church. When I saw the second film (almost by accident),
>I realised that I had allowed myself to be influenced without looking
>at the information for myself.
>
>If you are going to ban Harry Potter, then you must logically also
>ban "The Lord of the Rings" and the "Narnia" books - also written by
>Christians and also having an underlying theme of love.

wynnleaf
I am in a similar position as Geoff.  It wasn't until we moved to a town in 
the midwest of the US where many evangelical Christians *loved* HP, that I 
started reading the books, too.

I have run across a number of evangelical Christians who love Tolkein and 
Lewis and hate HP.  I can't understand this at all.  It seems so 
contradictory.

>Moving on, Bruce wrote in message 159354:
>
>I have a theory that the story of Harry is an allegory to the story
>of Christ. Therefore, in the 7th book, he would have to die to save
>the world. But --- since his character parallels Christ - it is
>possible he could also have a resurrection.
>
>Geoff:
>Here, I would disagree. I have on several occasions taken issue with
>contributors who have suggested that Harry is a Christ figure. Christ
>was God in human form; he was sinless.
>
>Harry, though I will fight for his side anytime, does not fit that 
>category.
>I identify so much with him because I see myself in my teen years.
>He is human and fallible. I have on many occasions posted to say that I
>see him as an everyman. Like us, he is on a journey and, like us, seeks
>the best way but often falls down as we do because we allow God's
>desire to guide us to be thwarted by pride, anger, apathy and a hundred
>and one other things in our physical life.
>
>At the risk of being hit by someone because I have preeviously said this
>again and again and (sigh) again, I want to see a Horcruxless Harry
>emerge alive and well from the end of Book 7.
>
>
wynnleaf
While I certainly don't think Harry is a Christ figure, I will not be at all 
surprised if after Book 7 is published, JKR reveals her thoughts regarding 
spiritual aspects of the books.


wynnleaf

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