checking out the library book / Love

[pippin_999]

> 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.

Pippin:
::snerk:: If you want to maintain that a series which makes mention
of  ghosts, souls, monks, nuns, knights, chivalry, cathedrals, a fat
friar, prophecy, a power beyond the forces of nature and enough
mythological references to choke a hippogriff has no overt 
references to religion, be my guest. I'm sure Jo can work in a
reference to God in the same fashion which allowed you to 
overlook the others.

Kneasy:
> 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?

Pippin:
Bathsheba? We already had Myrtle spying on Harry in the bath and 
offering to share her toilet. One might compare the scar to the mark
of Cain, if it hasn't been done already. Lily's sacrifice corresponds
to Samson's in the temple, though I realize that probably wasn't
the part of the Samson story you had in mind.  I'll leave Judas and
Salome to others though it isn't hard to think of parallels.

Pippin