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   From: DON'Tvictordix@imapmail.orgSPAMME   
      
   On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:55:37 -0400, Draco Malfoy wrote:   
      
   > 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 According to historical documents and occult tradition, Flamel learned   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?   
      
   Draco = Dragon = guardians of the temples and treasures ;)   
      
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