[HPforGrownups] Re: The Role of Religion in the Potterverse was Magical Latin

[No Limberger]

No: HPFGUIDX 186179

>Carol responds:
>No Christ figure can exactly duplicate the circumstances of Christ's
>death and resurrection because the Christ figure are fully human
>and in that respect no different from the people that they save.
>No one is claiming that Harry is God, a god, or the Son of God.
>But the act of willingly going to his death to save the WW from
>Voldemort (along with a near-death experience that simulates
>resurrection) makes Harry a Christ figure as that term is defined
>by (Western) literary critics. It also makes him a Christ figure in
>the view of the author who created him.

No.Limberger responds:
Do you believe that firefighters are Christ figures?  They do rather
heroic things like going into burning buildings to save others'
lives.  This would make any firefighter who has ever died in the line
of duty of Christ figure.  The same would be true for any policeman,
soldier, paramedic, nurse, doctor, bystander, etc. who gave his/her
life to save someone else's life.  Darth Vader can also be a
Christ figure because he gave his life to save his son's from the
evil emperor, as would many other characters from Star Wars,
Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, Superman, Spider-man, Batman,
and the list just goes on and on and on, including pagan mythological
figures who did the same thing, like Hercules.  Of course, Harry never
saw the face of Christ in toast, tortillas or seat cushions as some
people in real life have claimed.

People perceive reality the way that they want to perceive it.  If
someone wants to see HP as a Christ figure, then that is what
they are going to see because they want to see it.


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