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   From: dthierbach@usenet.arcornews.de   
      
   Steve Hayes  wrote:   
   > On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:33:48 +0200, Dirk Thierbach   
   >  wrote:   
      
   >>OTOH, Granger seriously proposes to see Gilderoy Lockhart as a parallel   
   >>to Philip Pullman, which I think is totally nuts. So I'm a bit wary now   
   >>of what he writes.   
      
   > Now THAT would be an allegory, however veiled.   
      
   I think we use two different very definitions of "allegory". I suppose   
   mine is closer to the one Tolkien uses in his foreword. But as I said,   
   I don't mind what you call it. I'm happy to use a different term, if   
   you propose one.   
      
   - Dirk   
      
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