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[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 186135

> >Maggie responded:
> >I thought you were claiming that Wizards had some alternative religious
> identity to the
> >religious identity of modern people in the UK.
 
> No.Limberger responds:
> No. What I am saying is that references to religion, either directly or
> indirectly, in Harry
> Potter are few and far between.  I am also saying that any witch or wizard
> can have
> any personal religious beliefs that they choose, or none at all, just like
> anyone else.
> 
> I don't believe that JK Rowling intended religion to play a major role in
> Harry Potter. This
> automatically makes the books more accessible to more people regardless of
> personal religious beliefs.

Magpie:
Oh! Well then yes, I totally agree. I know she herself is Christian and that informs her beliefs, but I don't think anything is so specifically Christian that it's necessarily about Christianity. If one already sees the world through that lens there's no doubt a lot there to relate to it, but the same is true for somebody else.

-m