[HPforGrownups] Jo's OWN Words about Political and Religious Overtones in the Books

[Janette]

No: HPFGUIDX 173771

Kathryn Lambert <anigrrrl2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> SOOOOO.....I can totally live with this. She didn't keep her spiritual
> stuff secret because Harry was a symbol for Jesus - she kept it quiet
> because she didn't want to give away that people live on after death, as in
> Heaven. For me, a story about spiritual struggle and questions of faith is a
> lot more interesting than a book about how great the Bible story is! I knew
> Jo wasn't that traditional. I appreciate the struggle to keep believing, and
> that makes for a complex book. A simplistic allegory to the Biblical story
> isn't it.


montims:
taking slight issue with the phrase above: "she didn't want to give away
that people live on after death, as in Heaven" - I'm not convinced that JKR
is referencing a heaven at all.  I suppose one is entitled to ask where she
feels dead people go (or not, if they are scared, like Sir Nick), but as I
see it they are gone until they are called back under special
circumstances.  Where they are gone is not made clear to me.

I am a pagan, so I could picture them in Summerland.  I can also envisage
them being reincarnated, when they are ready to use the lessons lerarned in
their earlier life/lives.  But Heaven specifically?  I don't see that she
has said that.  If someone could reference detailed canon, I would be
grateful.

Speaking of canon, I read somewhere, long ago, that JKR's main heroine is
Jessica Mitford, and I see a huge amount of Unity Mitford/Hitler in the
Bella story.  Diana is very Narcissa-ish... Farve would definitely have been
a Slytherin, and proud of it...


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