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

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 186220

Shelley:
<SNIP>
Indeed, Alla asked you before to explain this, and yet you haven't. Here was 
his line. <SNIP>

Alla:
Her line, not his :)

Shelley (also a "she"):

Oops! I'm red-faced here! So hard to keep track of his and hers on this 
list- I don't know why I read what you write and think "male writer". Maybe 
it's because you are so logical and thorough. Anyway, thanks for your 
assessment.

Alla:
<snip>
And same with Christian themes, as it was said many people predicted the 
ending (general idea) correctly based upon seeing the framework.  I 
certainly would not want to read a book that promotes it. Lewis' books are 
really not among my favorite books, quite the contrary. Recently I read the 
book by W. Nicholson, whose character name is `Seeker of truth' and who 
wants to become the member of the Noble warriors, who serve the One who is 
Child, Mother, Father, in the GARDEN. Right, this is the kind of book I have 
very little patience for and as you could guess I will not be reading second 
and third book of this trilogy. I had a feeling that author was beating me 
over the head with the baseball bat. <snip>

Shelley:
I guess what I really enjoyed about Harry Potter from the beginning is that 
she didn't give away her framework too soon. What sucked me in from the very 
first books were the vivid descriptions of the WW- Molly's kitchen, where 
pots were scrubbing themselves, and Molly's clock that told where people 
were, instead of the time, the castle where stairs moved and everything was 
a wonderful treasure to be discovered. The Young Wizards series by Diane 
Duane, mentioned last post of mine, starts the beginning of the 2nd book 
with all that set up of the (Christian based) framework (it was hinted at in 
the first), and I find those books to be a lot more boring than if the setup 
wasn't given away from the very start. The ones that do, with Christian 
theme, I agree feel more like like beating me over the head with a bat- it's 
like they work too hard to make everything match up to be an exactly replica 
of the Biblical story it was taken from, and the intrege of where it all is 
going is just lost. Rowling doesn't do that to us, she leaves us guessing, 
and that's what keeps the interest level high. Even if you thought Harry was 
set up to be a Christ-figure, you always wondered if she was going to pull a 
fast one on us and resolve the whole thing last second through some other 
means that no one could have predicted.