Old JKR quote (Spoilers? DEFINITELY)

Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) catlady at catlady_de_los_angeles.yahoo.invalid
Mon Jul 23 14:56:24 UTC 2007


--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Mike & Susan Gray"
<mikesusangray at ...> wrote:

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<< So: would she still agree with that quote? I find it difficult to
identify any direct reference to God in the series - unless we take
the rather obvious biblical assertion: God is love. In which case, the
whole series is crawling with them. [Insert post-metaphysical riff here.]

But what precisely could we have predicted on the basis of what
understanding of God? >>

As I read the chapter, 'King's Cross', I immediately thought of this
quote, thinking she thought her Christian belief was obviously the
reason Harry died to save others and then came back to life. That may
be the reason she wrote it that way, rather than the logic of the
story required Harry to die but her soft heart gave mercy to her Harry
loving fans (other than Eggplant, I guess). But it is not obvious that
 deep and sincere Christian belief will automatically cause an author
to bring a dead protagonist back to life -- in many stories, it has
not. And non-Christians have written stories about dead people coming
back to life. If she'd kept him dead for three days ...





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