Is Harry Potter the Son of God?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 171011

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Janette <jnferr at ...> wrote:
>
> abbey wrote:
> >
> > Is Harry Potter the Son of God?
> >
> > The article, "Is Harry Potter the Son of God?" is available to read in
> > the essays section of HP for GrownUPs.
> >
> > Timed for the release of J.K. Rowling's seventh and final book of the
> > Harry Potter series, this article presents persuasive evidence from
> > the books and from interviews with Rowling that the Harry Potter story
> > is, in fact, an intentional Gospel allegory written with evangelistic
> > intention, and that this will become abundantly clear in the final book.
> 
> 
> montims:
> Well, to be quite candid, if the Potter series IS "an intentional Gospel
> allegory written with evangelistic intention", that will destroy it for me
> and I will feel manipulated, and never read any of the books again.
> 
> I cannot believe that JKR is so evangelistic, and find the idea quite
> disturbing.

Geoff:
This raises the question, have you read JRR Tolkien or CS Lewis?

The Narnia books were written with the Christian gospel in mind 
and LOTR, although set in a mythical pre-Christian era, contains 
a great deal of Christian pointers.

I think there are many people who read the Harry Potter books, 
enjoy them as stories and manage to avoid the Christian content 
- either deliberately or by default - so, if this theory proves to 
be correct, maybe you can still read them and tune out what JKR, 
and many group members,  consider to be an important aspect  
of these stories.