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   From: dthierbach@usenet.arcornews.de   
      
   Steve Hayes  wrote:   
   > On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:31:33 +0200, Dirk Thierbach   
   >  wrote:   
      
   >>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.   
      
   > Allegory, a figurative narrative or description, conveying a veiled moral   
   > meaning: an extended metaphor.   
      
   Ok. So what's the veiled moral meaning or metaphor in having an   
   invented character that shares some personality traits with a real   
   person (but has otherwise nothing to do with the real person)?   
      
   It's not like Lockhart is Christ. Or Truth.   
      
   OTOH, Aslan *is* Christ. And the relationship of the protagonists   
   to Aslan mirrors the the relationship the reader should have to Christ:   
   That's the metaphorical moral meaning.   
      
   Do you agree?   
      
   - DIrk   
      
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