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gehayi

Using my only Dumbledore icon for this.

Oct 20, 2007 00:38

To my friends list, which is going nuts about JKR outing Dumbledore:

I called this back in June of 2006 in Chapter 13 of HBP Spork. underlucius called it back in Chapter 4.

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gehayi October 20 2007, 07:22:26 UTC

As to the Christian symbolism claims, I think that she wants to be considered a Serious Writer and not a marketing phenomenon. Hence the rather pretentious claims that she's always denied up till now ( ... )

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gehayi October 20 2007, 13:05:46 UTC

Christian quotes

*Shrug* To tell you the truth, I didn't even know that the lines on the graves were from the Bible until I looked them up. "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also" is Luke 12:34; "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death" is 1 Corinthians 15:26.

They weren't immediately recognizable to the man on the street as religious quotations. Certainly neither one referred to God or religion. And neither Harry nor Hermione knew the origin of the quotes. Indeed, I would suspect that most readers thought she made up something that sounded "quote-y."

the cultural-Christian atmosphere of Christmas and the like

Huh? You mean Christmas and Easter at Hogwarts? That's nothing symbolic; that's how English boarding schools used to divide the year--Christmas vacation and Easter vacation. Now I believe they call them winter and spring vacation. However, wizards are a bit slow and probably haven't caught up with that yet ( ... )

gehayi October 20 2007, 15:12:48 UTC

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minkhollow October 20 2007, 16:12:04 UTC

I have a theory (that does not involve bunnies about the 'Christmas and Easter at Hogwarts' thing, that extends beyond what gehayi mentioned about it being a British academic calendar function ( ... )

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