Is Harry Potter the Son of God?

[Katie]

No: HPFGUIDX 171049

--- 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.
> 
> 

KATIE REPLIES: I find this idea disturbing, and quite honestly, 
almost revolting. First of all, in terms of comparing HP to LotR and 
Narnia, HP is based much more in the reality of the here and now. It 
is much less pure fantasy in that aspect. Secondly, in both LotR and 
Narnia, the Christian elements are there from the beginning, and, at 
least in LotR's case, Tolkien was not TRYING to make a Christian 
story, per se. He was writing a story as a Christian, and that is 
very different than writing a "Christian story".

Also, may I beg to point out that Evangelical Christianity is 
incredibly different from mainstream Christian religions, and quite 
disturbing to a lot of us (Catholic here). I was unaware that JKR WAS 
an Evangelical Christian...where is this public knowledge? I would 
really be disappointed if 6 wonderful and creative books turned out 
to be a vehicle for some kind of religious message. YUCK. 

For real, though, has JKR ever said she is an Evangelical Christian? 
That doesn't seem to suit her personality to me...Blah. No offense 
meant to any Evangelical Christians out there, but I just really hate 
the whole relating Harry to religion stuff. Why can't the books just 
be great stories and that's all?? Katie, feeling frustrated that 
people tend to bring the discussion round to religion every few 
months.