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To: Politicalmom

Wow, this is the silliest, most over-the-top thing I’ve ever read. Putting author’s name on my auto-ignore mental list.


13 posted on 08/24/2007 5:28:45 AM PDT by JenB
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To: JenB; Corin Stormhands

Good grief. Look at the list of articles about HP that this guy has written. Does he write about anything else?

Looks like he’s even more obsessed with Rowling’s stories than even the most immersed fans.


14 posted on 08/24/2007 7:57:09 AM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: JenB
Wow, this is the silliest, most over-the-top thing I’ve ever read. Putting author’s name on my auto-ignore mental list.

I actually read one of this guy's books(Father Elijah). While it wasn't particularily good, there were some very powerful section. One of my friends actually knew the guy personally too. Reading something like this from him is depressing. Seems to be a case of misplaced religious zeal.
35 posted on 08/24/2007 10:00:24 AM PDT by DarkSavant
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To: JenB
I have to agree. Also, I think the author really needs to re-read the books. I just got finished reading the whole series from 1-7, and I must disagree with this:

"It is revealed that Dumbledore had asked Snape to kill him - mercy killing - and their dialogue about it sounds uncannily like justification for euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide."

Actually, Dumbledore wanted Snape to kill him in order to save the "soul" of one of Harry's classmates, Draco. Dumbledore stating that he was young and his "soul" was not yet lost. Snape agrees to do this.

Also, the death is not about euthanasia; but, about Dumbledore's belief that death is not the end, but a new beginning. Which seems to me to be a "Christian" point of view.

Also, I was a bit surprised, when Harry takes what is left of Mad-Eye Moody (his "magical" eye), which has been stuck in the evil Dolores Umbridge's door, and buries it under a tree. After burying the eye (all that is left of Moody), Harry carves a cross on the tree, right above the burial site. Again, I think, indicating a reverence for the dead, and with Christian overtones.

58 posted on 08/24/2007 11:56:44 AM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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