Not a lot of text today, but I do have some really good sound bites for you!
Also, Dr. Poe said that we need to be thinking about projects that we will complete by the end of the term, and when I asked him after class what exactly we would need to do he said, "You already have a project! It's your blog! Why on earth would you want to do anything more?" So now not only am I able to share with you what we are talking about in class, but I'm getting credit for it as well!
And we aren't the only ones talking about Harry Potter and the Gospel. Check out what this article has to say about the boy that lived.
That is all for now, but we have some GREAT material on the way!
- V. B.
For C. S. Lewis, stories started as pictures, not with a plot or idea. Rowling is different.
How do you get from one world to
another one?
Looking glasses and rabbit holes
work for Alice, rings work for Digory and Polly, wardrobes work for Lucy, so
on and so forth.
How does Harry get from the
Muggle world to Hogwarts? No one knows were Hogwarts is, or how to get there
except on the Hogwarts Express from King’s Cross. King’s Cross is a train
station, but where did King’s Cross get its name? On the one hand it was
because of a statue of King George IV at a cross roads that was torn down after
his death when the station was being built. But the name started because when a
queen was buried, everywhere the coffin stopped the king would erect a cross.
But there is more to it then
that. Much like Harry, you can only get to the other world from THE King’s cross.
So, the real question is how do
we get to Heaven?
We are flesh and blood, and there
are some things that flesh and blood can’t do. (Dr. Poe demonstrated by walking
into the wall several times.) So how do we get to Heaven?
Rowling also uses the “S” word!
SIN! Even Lewis didn’t use the word sin in his books. She uses it on page 72
talking about the sin of greed.
Problems, right from the
beginning
Ron has an anger problem, and (in
the first book) Hermoine has no friends, and Harry has no self-identity. He
wants family and a sense of belonging.
Voldemort is, in many ways, Harry’s mirror. They both have no parents, they both rebel in some ways as teens, but it is the choices that Harry makes that
make him different from Voldemort.
Hagrid is very much in the same
boat as Harry because he is an orphan as well.
Snape says he can bottle fame,
brew glory, and stopper death. Dr. Poe knows how to do the same thing! The key
is the Bible. God is full of Glory, Jesus stopped death, and His name is known
across the globe.
The Mirror of Erised (Desire)
Galatians 5:16
Next time we will talk about
death, Neville, and Nicholas Flamel.
“There is more to succeeding at
Hogwarts than fame and Wikipedia.” – Dr. Poe
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