Teachable moments at Hogwarts
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This was my first blog post for Orthodox Christian Network’s revamped blog called The Sounding. I was glad to have the chance to talk about something I noticed when I watched the last Harry Potter movie. I wonder if anyone else noticed it …There’s nothing new in pop culture about re-enacting the ultimate battle between Good and Evil. And Lord Voldemort certainly fit the familiar stereotype in many ways: His revolting appearance, unrestrained cruelty, frightening abilities to know people and manipulate them — all of it combined to make him appear a foe that was virtually unstoppable.
But what I noticed in both the book and the movie, and what strikes me as a surprising bit of truth for J. K. Rowling to present, was that there was one other quality that Voldemort’s evil brought out in him …
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