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maria29
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For me reading Harry Potter Books are more like reading some of the old Arthurian legends. I also agree that if more people would read more than the LOTR series that actually would be surprised about what Tolkien writes.
Does this mean we shouldn’t let students read Macbeth? Or any other legends, folklore etc?
I also find it scary that the Chief Exorcist is holding conversations with He Who Must Not be Named. One of our friends is a priest and he said one the things that they learned in seminary, is that you are NEVER to talk(Hold conversations) with someone who has been possessed.
This article does a superb job of explaining the religious symbolism in the Harry Potter books.
"Most striking of images in the books is the deer or stag, who represents piety, religious aspiration, solitude, and purity of life. Unbeknownst to Harry it is his father in the form of a stag who appears when he utters the Patronus spell in the third book. Recall that Harry is passing out, about to be overcome by the kiss of a dementor (themselves unsubtle tributes to J.R.R. Tolkien’s ringwraiths.) In Latin patronus means defender or advocate, and is etymologically linked with the Latin for father. Expecto means “I await,” a waiting that may be tinged with hope as in the Nicene Creed, expecto resurrectionem. So the spell expecto patronum means “I await a defender, an advocate.” It turns out that the answer to Harry’s prayer is the father whom he hopes for. The son is saved by his prayer, and then sees himself standing next to the stag on the bank across the lake. Later the wise Dumbledore explains, “your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself most plainly when you have need of him…”
Does this mean we shouldn’t let students read Macbeth? Or any other legends, folklore etc?
I also find it scary that the Chief Exorcist is holding conversations with He Who Must Not be Named. One of our friends is a priest and he said one the things that they learned in seminary, is that you are NEVER to talk(Hold conversations) with someone who has been possessed.
This article does a superb job of explaining the religious symbolism in the Harry Potter books.
"Most striking of images in the books is the deer or stag, who represents piety, religious aspiration, solitude, and purity of life. Unbeknownst to Harry it is his father in the form of a stag who appears when he utters the Patronus spell in the third book. Recall that Harry is passing out, about to be overcome by the kiss of a dementor (themselves unsubtle tributes to J.R.R. Tolkien’s ringwraiths.) In Latin patronus means defender or advocate, and is etymologically linked with the Latin for father. Expecto means “I await,” a waiting that may be tinged with hope as in the Nicene Creed, expecto resurrectionem. So the spell expecto patronum means “I await a defender, an advocate.” It turns out that the answer to Harry’s prayer is the father whom he hopes for. The son is saved by his prayer, and then sees himself standing next to the stag on the bank across the lake. Later the wise Dumbledore explains, “your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself most plainly when you have need of him…”
