Harry Potter...

I wasn't surprised by the ending since I read spoilers when I had no hope for the series, but I was surprised at how blatantly Christ-like she made Harry. I mean, you kind of figured it would end with him dying and coming back, but...to have his death protect Hogwarts from Voldemorts magic....really?

I mean, Tolkien also made allusions to Christianity, but he did it without making it too blatant. It was woven into it without any one character being completely allegorically Christ. Gandalf died and was transformed when he came back to life, but he wasn't a king. Aragorn was King though his people didn't recognize it, but he didn't take away the evil in the world.

Harry, though, is everything. His death killed part of Voldemort, but it also protected the rest of Hogwarts so Voldemort couldn't hurt them. He's able to do this, of course, because he also mastered death and broke its power. By the time Harry came back to life, the battle was already won, he just had to finish the job. All Voldemort could do was annoy people and get them pissed off...maybe even make them despair, but he had no true power.

Does anyone know if JK Rowling is Chrisitan? I know just because she made Harry a Christ figure doesn't necessarily mean she is, but its so complete in its allusion, she must understand something of theology or studied it at least....like the Wachowskis studied philosophy of religion.
Still, even though I enjoyed reading it, I wouldn't integrate Christianity into a work quite like she did.

It does seem interesting to me, though, that all the Chrisitan protestors who say Harry Potter is the devil will never realize that the book ended with such a clear allusion to Christ and they'll still condemn it as having no moral value.