The Role of Religion in the Potterverse was Magical Latin

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> No.Limberger responds:
> All world religions share similar concepts (not necessarily the same
> concepts between
> all religions), but each religion has its own unique concepts.  In none of
> my posts
> have I denied that JKR is a Christian. In fact, I believe I clearly
> acknowledged this fact
> in an earlier post.  If not, I am doing so here.  Where I disagree is the
> notion that
> JKR sat down one day and said, "I'm going to write a set of fantasy novels
> based
> upon Christianity."  Many Christians have written or created works that have
> absolutely
> nothing to do with Christianity.  To assume that just because an author is
> Christian
> automatically implies that all written works are subsequently Christian is
> not supported
> unless there is a significant amount of Christian material within the works
> themselves.

Alla:

How about if author herself said so? Would that be evidence enough  of authorial intent? 

http://www.hpana.com/news.20223.html

"To me [the religious parallels have] always been obvious. But I never wanted to talk too openly about it because I thought it might show people who just wanted the story where we were going."

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1572107/20071017/index.jhtml?rsspartner=rssYahooNewscrawler

"They're very British books, so on a very practical note Harry was going to find biblical quotations on tombstones," Rowling explained. "[But] I think those two particular quotations he finds on the tombstones at Godric's Hollow, they sum up — they almost epitomize the whole series." 

Alla:

Almost epitomize the whole series...  I know those are interviews and to analyse the work one does not need to take them into consideration. However you are talking about the intent now and I think for determining the intent interviews are very relevant.

But really, I do not need the interviews to see that books are heavily heavily based on Christian themes. And no, I am so not a Christian. I think somewhere upthread you said that references to religion are few and far between. Well, sure, however what matters to me is that they are there and what kind of references are there. We have biblical quotations, not the quotations from any other book. We have Harry dying for all WW and coming back. Um, if it quacks as duck what else can it be?

And I agree with Shelly, what other religion has Savior dying and coming back?

Yes, yes, I know we have Greek and Egyptian Gods dying and being resurrected, but not for the sins of humankind, no?