XPost: alt.philosophy, alt.religion, alt.christnet   
   From: isleofcapri@gmail.com   
      
   On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 23:41:35 -0500, VD wrote:   
      
   >>> 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.   
      
   Damn, Venereal Disease, we're not too far off from one another. Let's   
   see where this puts us in light of the article from the OP.   
      
      
      
   1) Rowling wrote Harry Potter specifically around the life of Christ   
   allegorically.   
      
   2) She claims to have done so to bring Christianity to a "new   
   generation".   
      
   3) The first three books were written for a smaller, literary   
   audience.   
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