Harry Potter and Jesus
Sylvia Michalak
March 14, 2013
Theology 103
Essay 1
The Deathly Hallows is the final part to the Harry Potter franchise. Harry Potter becomes a basis for spiritual conversation, a process of dialogue that leads to the topic of truth that is Jesus Christ. There is a very direct parallel when it comes to the two, believe it or not. J.K. Rowling has given Christians a valuable resource to introduce some of the central beliefs of the Catholic faith to a generation that knows the life of Harry Potter far better than it knows the life of Jesus Christ. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows offers us an opportunity to explain the Catholic faith to those who have been denied the knowledge of Jesus Christ, to acquire it, and after all an opportunity to encourage them to pick up and read the story of God’s redemption of us all.
It is the absence of love that is the dominating and ultimately the fatal flaw of Harry’s nemesis, Voldemort. Harry is left to choose between good and evil. He is told by his professor, Dumbledore, that he has always been the one who knew Harry’s destiny. Dumbledore had the burden of knowing and he would rather not have known. The link between Harry and the wizardry-school headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, is also patterned on the most essential relationship in the Bible that is between Jesus the Son and God the Father. Evil is the absence of or the corruption of love. Voldemort has driven love from his soul; and death is not the ultimate evil to be feared above all else. Obsessed with immortality from a young age, Voldemort creates a total of seven horcruxes in an effort to prevent his death. A horcrux is a vessel into which one places a piece of one 's soul to protect themselves from mortal death. The night Voldemort tried to kill Harry the curse rebounded leaving him with only a scar. The curse, however, split the remainder of Voldemort 's soul, which latched itself onto the last living thing in the room, which was Harry 's soul. By doing this
March 14, 2013
Theology 103
Essay 1
The Deathly Hallows is the final part to the Harry Potter franchise. Harry Potter becomes a basis for spiritual conversation, a process of dialogue that leads to the topic of truth that is Jesus Christ. There is a very direct parallel when it comes to the two, believe it or not. J.K. Rowling has given Christians a valuable resource to introduce some of the central beliefs of the Catholic faith to a generation that knows the life of Harry Potter far better than it knows the life of Jesus Christ. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows offers us an opportunity to explain the Catholic faith to those who have been denied the knowledge of Jesus Christ, to acquire it, and after all an opportunity to encourage them to pick up and read the story of God’s redemption of us all.
It is the absence of love that is the dominating and ultimately the fatal flaw of Harry’s nemesis, Voldemort. Harry is left to choose between good and evil. He is told by his professor, Dumbledore, that he has always been the one who knew Harry’s destiny. Dumbledore had the burden of knowing and he would rather not have known. The link between Harry and the wizardry-school headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, is also patterned on the most essential relationship in the Bible that is between Jesus the Son and God the Father. Evil is the absence of or the corruption of love. Voldemort has driven love from his soul; and death is not the ultimate evil to be feared above all else. Obsessed with immortality from a young age, Voldemort creates a total of seven horcruxes in an effort to prevent his death. A horcrux is a vessel into which one places a piece of one 's soul to protect themselves from mortal death. The night Voldemort tried to kill Harry the curse rebounded leaving him with only a scar. The curse, however, split the remainder of Voldemort 's soul, which latched itself onto the last living thing in the room, which was Harry 's soul. By doing this
Cited: "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2." IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. Hooke, S. H. The Bible. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1982. Print.