Is Harry Potter the Son of God?

[leslie41]

No: HPFGUIDX 171075

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Katie" <anigrrrl2 at ...> wrote:
 
> Anyway, again, please don't take offense, i am not trying to be 
> confrontational. I just want to have some proof that these are just 
> great books, not some story about Christianity...which would totally 
> ruin them for me. (And which, by the way, I see no evidence for. It's 
> not like Narnia, where the symbolism is barely symbolism. It's pretty 
> obvious. I see NONE of that in HP. They're just great books.) 
> Katie, having been an Anglophile and a history scholar for more than 
> 10 years, and having gone twelve years to Catholic school, and thus 
> feeling like I may have a leg to stand on here.

What I don't understand is why the books would be "ruined" if 
they're "some story about Christianity." If you're an Anglophile, and a 
Catholic, you're going to miss out on an awful lot of great literature 
if you avoid poems and texts that can be described that way. Not just 
LotR and Narnia but Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.  The Fairie 
Queene.  Lots of Chaucer's work.  I could go on.  

I'm a Christian, but I wasn't raised as one, and I certainly wasn't one 
when I started reading Tolkien, who once said of LotR that "Christ's 
face is on every page".  Didn't bother me a bit. Doesn't bother my 
cousin, and she's an orthodox Jew.  

Why would Rowling's books be ruined for you if there's some intentional 
Christian message in them?  I don't get it.