checking out the library book / Love

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:
> The room that no one was allowed to enter has Jewish roots.
> Inside the Holy of Holies, there was nothing, except when the 
> High Priest stood there once a year to confess and  call 
> on the Name for pardon and blessing. The idea was that
> God would do this because He loves His people. 
> 

Kneasy:
That implies that the content is God.
Not even Jo would be able to get away with that one, more so since
she has been very careful in bringing *no* overt or even oblique
religious references into the HP books at all, apart from maybe 
ethical/moral standards - which of themselves do not require a
religious belief for their practice.

AFAIK Jo has allowed that if we were aware of her personal
religious beliefs then we might be able to garner clues or even
the answer to what will happen. Fine. So why get bogged down
in the minutiae of comparative theology? What little she has
revealed includes visits to to places of worship under the auspices
of the Church of Scotland - which is Presbytarianism, I think,
though it wouldn't surprise me to find more than a touch of
Calvinism. And one tenet they adhere to is predestination,
which might explain all this prophecy stuff.  But frankly I'm
not expecting much divinity to surface in HP.

BTW, if members are so keen to include religious themes into the
story, then the least they can do is at least consider the more
entertaining ones - Judas, Salome, Samson, Cain and Abel - let's
have a bit of action. Bathsheba would be good. Who do we know 
who's got a chariot?