King's Cross Station and DH as Christian Allegory)

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I too have pondered over Kings Cross. The Christian allusions are
obvious to anyone brought up in Christian traditions or practising
the faith. I perhaps would class myself as a non-ptactising Christian
or perhaps a Chrisian Agnostic.

However leaving aside the direct Christian overtones of the name, it
is a railway station, a place of departure so it could be that
Rowling used it purely on that level. If Harry had decided to travel
on then perhaps we would have seen the train arrive. The idea of
death being a journey onwards is a common one and I imagine that
there would be some elements of purgatory in it too, Snape would have
a longer harder road to travel than Harry for example. The story I
found it recalled to mind is Tolkiens 'Leaf by Niggle'. In that the
character found himself in a landscape he had created in his time on
earth. 'Kings Cros' materialised out of Harrys growing conciousness
and faded back into mist as he decided to go back.

Anyway I mustn't ramble but thank you for your posts everyone. I too
am still responding to the book too emotionally. Found myself crying
in the car the other day just on thinking through Harrys 'Gethsemane'
on the floor of Dumbledores office. Why didn't he talk to Dumbledores
portrait at this point?

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