[the_old_crowd] Re: checking out the library book / Love

[Penny & Bryce]

Hi --

Strangely jumping into a canon discussion (and feeling very out of practice) --

<<<<<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.>>>>>>>>

I agree with Pippin's snerk, and while I see the back-and-forth dialogue that ensued therefrom, I stand by this.  There have been quite a number of books devoted to the subject of Harry Potter and Christianity (while I know of none so far on HP and any other major religious belief system).  Because there are entire books devoted to the subject (and which quite clearly spell out the not-so-oblique religious references in HP, as well as some that are certainly classed as "oblique" or . . . er. . . . open to interpretation shall we say (<g>), I won't try to list them here.  Authors who've taken a look at this subject include John Granger, Connie Neal, Francis Bridger and John Killinger.  There are probably others.  Nimbus had an entire track of programming devoted to "moral issues", and it appears that Accio has a strong emphasis on this general theme.  So, I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it as absent entirely from the Potterverse, as Kneasy has done.    

I agree too with Neil who points out that personal experience likely colors one's intepretation in this particular area (as well as many others).  So I suppose my own religious beliefs likely predisposes me to nod with agreement when reading works by the above authors.  

Someone pointed me to a LJ commentary earlier today, in which one person stated baldly that canon was both what was explicit and implicit in the books, that canon is what the "author obviously intended."  Hmm.  Still puzzling entirely over how anyone short of JKR, at this point, reckons they know what JKR "obviously intended."  

::::shakes head::::::::

Penny


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