Is Harry Potter the Son of God?

[Annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 171058

Abby wrote:
> > 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.
<snip>


Annemehr:

First of all, I don't think Abby was calling JKR an Evangelical 
Christian (proper noun) per se, but saying her intent is to 
evangelize.

Be that as it may however, I agree with you that "Christian allegory" 
is not an accurate description of the HP series.

Just for the sake of...er...lack of clarity though, I don't know why 
the Scotsman calls her Episcopalian.  According to whatever I've read 
(somewhere), while she did grow up in the Anglican Church, nowdays 
she belongs to the Church of Scotland (which corresponds to 
Presbyterian in the US).

I went to Accio Quote for sources.  Here is one you might be 
interested to read:

http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2005/0705-time-grossman.htm

It gives you a little of the flavor of what she's doing (she's not 
giving much away yet), and notes she wan't actually a fan of either 
Tolkein or Lewis.

And here's a quote I like from another article:

"Witchcraft is just a metaphor for this other world of possibilities, 
beyond convention, that the mind can reach." 
-- JK Rowling, 

from
http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/1999/1099-atlanta-hulbert.htm

"Beyond convention."  Yeah, I like that.

Annemehr

P.S. These sources I found at Accio Quote by typing "Church of 
Scotland" (quotation marks included) into the search box.