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   From: DROPdraco.malfoy@countermail.comCAPITALLETTERS   
      
   On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:08:30 -0400, VD wrote:   
      
   > Ms. Rowling takes _modern_ misconceptions of magic and witchcraft, the   
   > comic book view of it, and integrates that into a Christian world. No   
   > one in the medieval world could have made any sense of Casper the   
   > friendly ghost, but Rowling peoples Hogwarts castle with such   
   > characters, and therein lies the fantasy.   
   >   
   > By doing so, she slides her "Christian underbelly" with no real   
   > transparency other than mixing it with the majickal soup.   
      
   Ala Nicholas Flamel who really existed. He was a French alchemist who   
   allegedly succeeded in making the Philosopher¢s Stone in the late   
   1300s.   
      
   According to historical documents and occult tradition, Flamel learned   
   how to make the Philosopher¢s Stone through the esoteric Book of   
   Abraham the Jew. This text, supposedly written by the Jewish   
   Patriarch, contained various directions in hieroglyphic form.   
      
   Flamel and his Sorcerer¢s Stone are only two examples of how Rowling   
   mixes reality with fantasy in her series. Book I also refers to   
   Paracelsus, Waffling, author of Magical Theory, which is included on   
   Harry¢s list of required reading. Archbishop Adalbert of Magdeburg   
   (eighth century).   
      
   Unfogging the Future by a Cassandra Vablatsky. Could Vablatsky be an   
   anagram for Blavatsky? Doe woodchuckers chuck wood?   
      
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