[the_old_crowd] Re: Old JKR quote (Spoilers? DEFINITELY)

[ewe2]

On 7/24/07, Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) <catlady at ...> wrote:
> --- 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.]
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> But what precisely could we have predicted on the basis of what
> understanding of God? >>
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> 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 ...
>

My problem with it is that she felt it necessary to make him die and
then let him live, not simply to illustrate sacrifice (DD et. al. not
enough?), but because she couldn't escape her own logic once she'd
started down the Horcrux path. To me its not a question of religious
belief but a technical problem of making the necessary turnabout
believable. Being a Christian may make the idea more understandable
but it doesn't really explain anything. If DD had *not* appeared to
explain to him, it might have been more interesting, in fact I find
the whole "explaination after death" motif a poor excuse for
deliberately using death as a cliffhanger.

ewe2

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