So much time has gone by since I read “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince,” I feel like I’ll need a refresher course before the movie, based on the sixth book, comes out in a few weeks.
Yes, the “Harry Potter” cauldron is brewing, stirring up what I’m sure some thought was a nice, peaceful slumber from the furor that swept up people of all ages.
Yet as many fans as JK Rowling had for her series, which ends with the seventh book, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” there have been detractors who have even burned the books, which are framed in a magical world populated by witches and wizards.
It’s a free country, but it seems to me if people pulled the themes out of the “Harry Potter” books, one would see the themes Rowling continually returns to are based more in humanity than the occult.
Take the quest for immortality. It becomes Voldemort’s Achilles’ heel — an evil lust, if one believes eternal life is achieved through death and the belief in Christ.
Less a being than force
In the sixth book, readers find Voldemort has, through a series of brutal murders, split his soul into seven parts, hiding six of them in horcruxes. When the horcruxes are destroyed, so is a piece of Voldemort, who is more a force than a being.
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