You don’t think there is any valuable Christian allegory in someone who wishes his destiny was not his, who fights a great evil that decieves a large portion of the population, and who finally resolves to sacrifice himself so others might live?
“You don’t think there is any valuable Christian allegory in someone who wishes his destiny was not his, who fights a great evil that decieves a large portion of the population, and who finally resolves to sacrifice himself so others might live?”
Judging by some of the responses, obviously not.
The Potter books contain some of the same elements as the Lord of the Rings series and you don’t hear people hollering about that one.
You’d be much better off reading the “The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever”.
It has all the ingredients you just mentioned *and* was written by Stephen R. Donaldson, a Christian missionary.
Magnificent books...FAR better than the insidious Potter manifesto.
[which is SO full of thinly veiled but powerfully subliminal “advanced/high ritual magick” as to be positively mortifying to those of us who actually recognize it when we see it]
Flame me all you want but I stand by my statement that these books are extraordinarily dangerous things that might ‘appear as angels of light’ when they are most assuredly not.
If I had kids, they would positively, absolutely NOT be allowed to read them.
They may *appear* superficially to be a type of Christian allegory but they are definitely not.
Regardless of whatever small “redeeming value” or “morality” they may incidentally possess, the other, barely hidden content far outweighs it.
I refer you to a biblical passage to underscore that extremely relevant point;
“This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you. A little leaven leaventh the whole lump.”
Rowling may have “pulled herself admirably up from poverty”, “prompted huge numbers of children to read when they otherwise would not have” and become filthy stinking rich from them but I wouldn’t trade places with her.
There’s no amount of money worth my soul.