Symbol on spine of the British Edition

[Goddlefrood]

No: HPFGUIDX 167810

> Tonks:

> Sorry if this has already been discussed. I tried to find a 
reference in the old post, but gave up. I just stumbled on 
this symbol while looking for something else.

Goddlefrood:

Well, it has, but not quite from the atheist viewpoint ;), You'll
see why I say this shortly.

The symbol on the spine of the UK Child's cover differs in several
ways from Solomon's Magic Triangle. It's a line drawing with no
text for a start, unlike the Solomon's Magic Triangle.

Here are some links just to the images, they are only similar in
that they are both triangles that have a circle inside :). Other
than that they are differenct. Those links:

http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/2630/solomonstrianglejpgsx3.jpg

http://img459.imageshack.us/img459/9214/screenhunter001nh4.gif

What stung me to respond, though, was not this but the extract
brought in from an unrevealed source. It mentions Crowley in the
same breath as magic. Aleister Crowley may have been many things 
but he was not, except perhaps in his own mind, a magician. What
he was was an atheist and his published works, some of which I 
have read extracts of, would support this view. One should always
be suspicious of someone who spells their name Aleister too ;).
This is about him:

'Crowley gained much notoriety during his lifetime, and was 
famously dubbed "The Wickedest Man In the World."'

That from Wikpedia. So Crowley is hardly someone to rely on to
prove something, he was no more than a mischief maker and no
less than a deeply disturbed human being. Take a look at the
source of the quote wiki has:

http://www.lashtal.com/nuke/module-subjects-viewpage-pageid-18.phtml

That written in Crowley's own lifetime, not a pleasant man at all.

Is the suggestion that due to this we are to see some form of 
quasi-religious rite performed in DH, in that evil spirits will 
be summoned to give guidance in some way?

The HP books are many thing, but "Charmed" they certainly are not, 
IMO.

On that level I disagree with this post and say that the similarity
is just a coincidence, but as you will see, the two are hardly
similar at all.

The significance of the spine drawing should, I suggest, be looked
for elsewhere ;), even if it is argued that the Solomon's Magic
Triangle can also be used to summon benign spirits.

It would be so far removed from anything seen so far in canon that
it should quite simply be ignored :)

Goddlefrood, not an atheist, but concerned about the implications
of the post to which this responds.