Ending a long and reluctant process, SWNID has finished the seventh and final (our process was long and reluctant because we were loath to come to the end, where we would never read anything new of our wizard friends) Harry Potter installment.
We would offer our opinions, except that at roughly the time that we finished the book, the vital Books & Culture published the effervescent Alan Jacob's review of the same. We defer to his always excellent judgment, expressed in his always keen prose.
For those who haven't finished Deathly Hallows, we suggest avoiding the review, as it does spoil some stuff.
For those who haven't read Potter at all, we urge that you drop everything and start. To epitomize Potter, Jacob's quotes Chesterton's reference to certain popular literature as a "plainer and better gospel." Those Christians who shunned these books because of magic are surely wrong, and those who suspected that Rowling sought to sneak the essence of the good news past the dragons that guard people's hearts are surely right, whether she fully realized the book's effects in this regard or not.
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Ironically, the London Times ran an editorial shortly before the release of the seventh edition proclaiming that God was in fact the character who died in the final Harry Potter. The editorialist claimed that the HP books were devotedly void of any reference to religion or theological structure.
It was with triumph when I came upon the line that directly referenced a Jesus saying from the synoptic tradition.
And so I tip my hat to the worst literary critic of all time.
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Those who read H*rry P*tter are doomed to an eternity in the everlasting flames of H-E-double-L you crazy magic-loving, Jesus-crucifying dean!! Oh, you Godless infidel! Leading the masses astray yet again!! Do ye not take James 3:1 seriously?? What of Deuteronomy 18:9-14?
Be ye like the early Christians in Acts 19:18-20!! Cast off thy desires for hell-bound sorcery and the magical allure of HP!! Burn your H*rry P*tter books as those early practitioners and come back to the light of Christ!
Failure to repent could end in a savage revenge on thy pullet vessels, only this time compunction and $79 won't suffice as a propitiatory offering!
I shun thee oh anonymous swine. Clearly someone has not read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
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