The Role of Religion in the Potterverse was Magical Latin

Carol justcarol67 at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 2 20:20:10 UTC 2009


No: HPFGUIDX 186148

Carol earlier:
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> While I agree with you that JKR avoided making the books (with the partial exception of DH) explicitly Christian, and that the values she depicts are not exclusively Christian, she is herself Christian, and both her real world and the imaginary *British* and *European* have been shaped predominantly (but not exclusively) by Christian culture, an influence that remains strong even in the secularized twentieth and twenty-first centuries. <snip>

Carol again:

Apologies for wasting a post, but I don't want the omitted word (or acronym) here to interfere with the intelligibility of my post. Of course, I meant "the imaginary *British* and *European* WW," a I hope that the absence of a noun for the adjectives indicates.

Carol, who would never consider Britain or continental Europe imaginary!





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