I've just a few days back finished reading it and been digesting since. If you don't want to be foretold of any plot, look away now ...
The thing that stands out to me is the thing about the horcruxes that Voldemort has made to ensure he escapes death. The idea of deliberately tearing one's soul in order to implant a piece into an object is interesting from a Christian viewpoint, especially as the tear is made by commiting what Christians would regard as sin in the fullest sense: deliberate and destructive evil acts; in this case murder.
Of course there are difficulties about whether souls are that kind of thing, but the idea of sin tearing our souls is a good thing to have out there in popular culture from a mission perspective. The task now is to be able to use it to talk about atonement sensibly...
Image to work with: the tearing of the veil in the Temple?
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02 August 2005
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Andii, I just finished reading it as well. That's an interesting comment on the soul tearing. I'll have to think on it further.
The magic that Voldemort underestimates - love - is another interesting thread to take up and I wonder how the two can be weaved together.
You are absolutely right on the love angle; can't believe I forgot to mention it!
I'm wondering whether the final volume may spring the surprise that Dumbledore has a horcrux but that he tore his soul with self-sacrificing love or somesuch ... ?
Which would be even more interesting.
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