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Re: Rowling, Sacrifice, Christianity
I'm afraid I have to disagree with you on this point. Harry's survival doesn't make the book anti Christian in the least, if anything it does the opposite. It seems to me that the foundation of Christianity is not that Jesus died on a cross, but rather that by offering himself as a sacrifice he overcomes death, albeit spritual. In the case of ...
Posted to The Book Club by salty_bob on July 30, 2007
RE: Click Here if you thought the ending was a big fat cop-out
I think you guys need a speeding ticket - you whooshed through some important intersections in the book at such a rate that you apparently missed important details. Remember, Dumbledore and Harry were not alone in the heavenly train station. A miserable creature was crying on the floor: Voldemort. And yes, Voldemort certainly had lost track ...
Posted to The Book Club by MelodyL on July 24, 2007
The Family That Potters Together
The Potter-obsessed Caric family of Kentucky hasn't been talking much about whether Harry is going to live or die, although my wife and I think Harry will live while our 12 year old daughter believes he'll die. That's probably due to our irrational optimism about teen-agers as our own daughters march toward their teen years. But Harry's fate ...
Posted to The Book Club by riccaric on July 18, 2007