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Goodness, I'm to chapter three of Harry Potter, and I don't think anyone has said something smugly, nervously, tellingly, sarcastically, absent-mindedly, or, well, any of the -ly's.
posted by ColumbusGuy @ 4:44 AM
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Just what are the Potter crowd celebrating during Christmas and Easter holidays? At Dumbledore's funeral there was a minister and there is the odd "Oh my God" throughout but otherwise conventional religion seems markedly absent. Harry generally stands for all things pure and good and right and You Know Who is the opposite (though ultimately just a clever boy gone remarkably bad)
While there are clearly parallels to Christian and other religious/mythical stories throughout the 7 books, its a story of good and evil devoid of the current God-beliefs- Maybe thats what has the e-vangs so bothered (After all they sopped up the supernatural stuff in the Left Behind series). Maybe thats why its also so popular
Throughout the books Dumbledore has refered to a "deeper magic" that Voldemort does not understand or comprehend. I've read this a an homage to the "deep magic" refered to in the Narnia Series by C.S. Lewis, which was more self-consciously religious and Christian. But I haven't finished Deathly Hallows yet (about 150 oages left) and I'm anxious to see if there is some discussion of what is on the other side of the veil.
Just what is the big objection to the use of adverbs, anyway? It seems like a perfectly valid part of speech.
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