In
reading an article on religion-online.org, I found that this writer actually
quoted J. R. R. Tolkien’s writing On
Fairy-Stories. She was referring to
the redemptive themes in Harry Potter.
Tolkien “coined a term for the way the redemptive mystery is explored in
fiction: he called it the eucatastophe.
A story which requires hardship and sacrifice…feeds the soul’s need for
deeper meaning.” This theme is all
throughout the Harry Potter series. How
true it is that the more hardship that a protagonist experiences, the more the
viewer reflects on their own need for redemption. When Dumbledore is killed at the end of the
movie, the viewer is left in a state of confusion and hurt. There is no restitution. Negativity and death prevailed. This must have been what it was like for the
disciples when they watched Jesus die on the cross. The hero was killed and did not save
himself. However, wait around long
enough and the savior returns again, triumphing over death.
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