Harry Potter is not a Horcrux

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 164477

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kenneth Clark" <kennclark at ...> wrote:
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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hpcentaur" <hpcentaur@>
> wrote:
> >
> > Harry Potter is not a horcrux because then it would be against
> > JKR's religion (Christianity). In the real world if someone has
> > a other soul in him then the person is possessed, by a demon for
> > example. But if someone is possessed then the demon (other soul)
> > takes control of the body where it is in. If Harry was possessed
> > then don't you think that Voldemort would just take control of
> > Harry without having to do a ritual to come back to life?
> > <SNIP>
> >
> 
> Ken replies:
> 
> "in the real world" there isn't such a thing as a soul (that anyone
> has ever been able to find) and in any case it's just a story so even
> if Rowling believes in souls it doesn't mean she has to toe the party
> line in her fiction.

Geoff:
As a Christian, I would stongly disagree. There are various things about 
us as humans which cannot be "found" - in addition to our soul, our 
conscience and our thoughts. Yet we do not deny the existence of 
these two latter.

Speaking from a Christian point of view, the Holy Spirit has been 
likened to the wind; we cannot see it, trap it in  a bottle, paint it, 
eat it.... Yet we know experientially that it is there.

The fact that JKR has said that it will be obvious by the end of the 
series that she is working from a Christian point of view suggests 
that she is keeping her faith in mind.  A "party line" belongs to 
politics not faith.