Is Harry Potter the Son of God?

[Katie]

No: HPFGUIDX 171051

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "abbey" <abbey at ...> 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.
> 
> abbey
>
KATIE REPLIES:

I already posted my opinion of this whole idea, but then I went 
searching for evidence that JKR was or was not an Evangelical 
Christian. I found at least one article: 
http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=3&id=46632006

This article says she's "Episcopalian" which is definitely NOT the same 
as Evangelical. Could someone have gotten these two "E" words mixed up? 
Because Episcopalians are quite mainstream - as they are Anglicans in 
the UK, and that's the official church of the UK...so I don't see where 
she's evangelical. Most British people are Anglican, even if they are 
lapsed or non-practicing. So...

Anyway, again, please don't take offense, i am not trying to be 
confrontational. I just want to have some proof that these are just 
great books, not some story about Christianity...which would totally 
ruin them for me. (And which, by the way, I see no evidence for. It's 
not like Narnia, where the symbolism is barely symbolism. It's pretty 
obvious. I see NONE of that in HP. They're just great books.) 

Katie, having been an Anglophile and a history scholar for more than 10 
years, and having gone twelve years to Catholic school, and thus 
feeling like I may have a leg to stand on here.