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Greetings all
This is my first post and I feel a little strange that it’s about something so trivial. Just so you know, this is not another promote HP/ bash HP thread. A lady friend of mine, a devout Protestant and great HP fan herself, asked me if JK Rowling has ever said definitively whether Christianity exists in any concrete form in her “world” or if it’s practiced by any of the characters. Not being as big a fan myself, I couldn’t rightly say. The question was then posed as to whether or not a character of that series could be both Christian and a practicing witch/wizard. I’m aware that the CCC states the following:
All practices of magic or sorcery, by which one attempts to tame occult powers, so as to place them at one’s service and have a supernatural power over others—even if this were for the sake of restoring their health—are gravely contrary to the virtue of religion. These practices are even more to be condemned when accompanied by the intention of harming someone, or when they have recourse to the intervention of demons. Wearing charms is also reprehensible. Spiritism often implies divination or magical practices; the Church for her part warns the faithful against it. Recourse to so-called traditional cures does not justify either the invocation of evil powers or the exploitation of another’s credulity.
Is this definition consistent with the power practiced in the books/films? Thanks.
Regards,
John
This is my first post and I feel a little strange that it’s about something so trivial. Just so you know, this is not another promote HP/ bash HP thread. A lady friend of mine, a devout Protestant and great HP fan herself, asked me if JK Rowling has ever said definitively whether Christianity exists in any concrete form in her “world” or if it’s practiced by any of the characters. Not being as big a fan myself, I couldn’t rightly say. The question was then posed as to whether or not a character of that series could be both Christian and a practicing witch/wizard. I’m aware that the CCC states the following:
All practices of magic or sorcery, by which one attempts to tame occult powers, so as to place them at one’s service and have a supernatural power over others—even if this were for the sake of restoring their health—are gravely contrary to the virtue of religion. These practices are even more to be condemned when accompanied by the intention of harming someone, or when they have recourse to the intervention of demons. Wearing charms is also reprehensible. Spiritism often implies divination or magical practices; the Church for her part warns the faithful against it. Recourse to so-called traditional cures does not justify either the invocation of evil powers or the exploitation of another’s credulity.
Is this definition consistent with the power practiced in the books/films? Thanks.
Regards,
John
