DH as Christian Allegory

[Sydney]

No: HPFGUIDX 173529

 IreneMikhlin :

> I love and adore your for saying that. When Dumbledore said to Snape
"we 
> sort too soon", something that amounts to "you should have been a 
> Gryffindor", it was like a knife to my heart. Because when you grow
as a 
>   Jew in an antisemitic country, like I did, you hear that sort of
thing 
> a lot, from well-meaning people that try to cheer you up: "you are
not a 
> real proper Jew like those horrible nasty ones, you are OK, we really 
> consider you one of us."
> 
> That's what Dumbledore is essentially saying, and that's why Snape 
> reacts this way.
> 

Sydney:

Thanks. :)  I'm glad that my posting this line of thought served a
purpose.  I really agonized over doing it; I'm still not sure if I
shouldn't have just kept my mouth shut, because there's no way to talk
about this without it being incredibly hurtful both to people who see
it and people who don't.  

That's enough for on this for me... it's really not fun to talk about
it.  

-- Sydney