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   From: DONTvictordix@imapmail.orgSPAMME   
      
   On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 23:23:56 -0500, Draco Malfoy wrote:   
      
   >>> How many came to Christ in part or whole due to Rowling? I don't see   
   >>> that statistic as a large one. First, you would have to be fairly   
   >>> astute to make the allegorical matchup and second be somehow inspired   
   >>> by the retelling allegorically.   
   >>   
   >> If she is as bright as she seems, it would be entirely possible that   
   >> she understood that there would be no bulldozer effect. That HP books   
   >> and films would be traces of Christian teachings floating about inside   
   >> the minds of everyone.   
   >   
   > That idea makes sense. It makes little sense that she thru Potter   
   > would expect that a gen of people ages 0-20 who had little religious   
   > training in Christianity would be intrigued with the life of Christ   
   > thru the Bible by reading Potter. They would simply not "get it".   
      
   Rowling never contemplated the immense success of Harry Potter. No   
   way, no how. To discuss the potential outcome of HP for the major   
   advancement of Christianity is silly, silly, silly.   
      
   HP was launched in 1997, she had been writing since 1995. That's three   
   years without any clue that Harry Potter was to be the international   
   success that it is. Don't count the movies. She had no way of knowing   
   that they were a possibility until 2000.   
      
   Which means that she had written Philosopher's Stone, Prisoner of   
   Azkaban, Chamber of Secrets and the Goblet of Fire before the movie   
   contract.   
      
   She had to be writing for a smaller audience in mind. Hence, it was   
   more a matter to her of representing Christianity for her satisfaction   
   than worrying about the masses and the masses reactions.   
      
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