This entry contains references to Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows.
I just reread the last few chapters in the last Harry Potter book and something dawned on me when I read this:
‘You won’t be killing anyone else tonight,’ said Harry as they circled, and stared into each other’s eyes, green into red. ‘You won’t be able to kill any of them, ever again. Don’t you get it? I was ready to die to stop you hurting these people -’
‘But you did not!’
‘- I meant to, and that’s what did it. I’ve done what my mother did. They’re protected from you…’
This is of course part of the final dialogue between Harry and Lord Voldemort after Harry’s resurrection, after he “didn’t defend [him]self tonight, and still survived, and returned to fight again”.
The parallels between this and the resurrection of Christ are unmistakeable. I found this very very interesting! And once I start to look at the book in this way, the Christian paradigm seems to apply fairly well.
Dumbledore, the father figure, is certainly omniscient and omnipresent. He is just a tiny bit lacking in the omnipotence department though he is still the cleverest, the most powerful and skilled wizard of his time, but the emphasis on his figure as a loving Father is consistent with some strands of Christianity.
Furthermore, just like these strands of Christianity, human goodness rather than human sinfulness is the central doctrine in this book. This human goodness, or Love, as Lord Voldemort speaks of so derisively, is the Holy Spirit that warms you, guides you and what produces a Patronus to protect and shield you. So, there, now we have the Trinity.
“…but I was selfish, Harry, more selfish than you, who are a remarkably selfless person…”
