I was right - Christian Symbols/Off-page Snape

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 174916

> Tonks:
> 
> "I am not normally one to say "I told you so"... but after all the
> flack I took here for saying that there was Christian symbolism all
> though these books.. well there is." 
> 
> 
> Mari:
> 
> I was one hundred percent with you regarding this aspect of the
> series, even before DH. I too was amazed at the backlash from many
> readers of the series in all walks of life who didn't see it as a
> viable argument. Whether you personally believe it or not, it's 
there,
> and has been from the beginning. I take my hat off to JKR for the 
way
> she has handled it over the series as a whole. I love the fact that
> you don't need to pay attention to this symbolism unless you want 
to.
> Because I am from a Christian background, this symbolism was 
obvious
> to me from the beginning, but it will not be obvious to everyone. 
> 
> I still remember the long post you sent about this subject, more 
than
> a year ago, which impressed me heaps. Isn't it a nice feeling to be
> proved right ;-)

Magpie:
Sorry to be a downer, but maybe I'm forgetting just what 
this "Christian symbolism" that you predicted is that you're 
referring to? Because I seem to remember lots of people agreeing 
that Harry might symbolically die and be resurrected, and that the 
stuff they disagreed with that Tonks said was in fact a lot more 
detailed and was no more confirmed in DH than it was before. Stuff 
like, iirc, Harry and Ginny being Adam and Eve, and the scar being 
the mark that he was baptised, and that the name James was directly 
referring to the apostle James, and Peter Pettigrew was Saint Peter, 
and the skull over Hogwarts when Dumbledore died was symbolizing 
Gesthemane (?). 

So if you can claim you were right I think the people disagreeing 
with you (if I'm remembering the same thread) can claim the same 
thing. The story was not a thin mask for a hundred different 
references to things in the Bible.  

Shelley:
I strongly disagree that "I" personally didn't need to feel that
forgiveness, that redemption, that turn around. I did, and because I 
didn't,
when I read that Harry had named his son after Snape, it caused me 
to scream
and yell at my book- I just couldn't believe that Harry had done 
that...

Magpie:
Kind of a me too, but I was somebody who already believed in DDM!
Snape and I thought the transition was non-existant as well. I'm 
still scratching my head over why Harry would name his child after 
Snape. 

-m