The Passion of Voldemort

[sigma7]

Why Harry Potter is evil

...The antagonist in the Harry Potter books is a man called Tom (parody of the Trinity, more about that in the next paragraph) Marvolo (marvels miracles) Riddle (referring to the Divine mystery), a man who is three as one, in the spiritual shape of an old man (Voldemort ¨Cmeaning flight of death, a direct reference to the plagues over Egypt), in the body of the young man who lives in the diary (Bible), and as the spirit that guides (as in the first book when he fights the witches for a stone the Sorcerer's Stone that grants immortality and is in defiance of the punishment for the fall).

This Tom Riddle is clearly the God of Christian tradition as other Christian critics of Mrs. Rowling's books have pointed out. When Potter first sees Tom Riddle the Son, Tom is described as strangely blurred around the edges, suggesting a halo (p. 330)....

I'll leave you to mock/ridicule/poke holes in her little manifesto. It's just too easy.

The downside to the Internet is it lets people's insanity bleed out into the world, whereas before it perhaps might've scabbed up in their tiny little imaginations. On the Internet, no one can hear you sigh with disappointment.

Edit: Utterly unrelated but still wond'rous: Ratherisms, limited to the 2000 & 2004 elections. Yes, I'll miss 'im.

Comments

[opheliasclone.livejournal.com]

But you know what's really sad about it? Somebody's going to copy her idea, elaborate on it, and use it for a graduate thesis. And it will work, too. :-P

[erica-roo.livejournal.com]

I have heard many bad things about these books and movies, there would be countless instances of witchcraft...brewing of drugs made by boiling alive babies pulled from the earth, sexual congress with goats...

Wow... If I had half her imagination, I could be a millionaire...

What kind of sick mind does it take to find that a movie is endorsing gay culture because the kid showed that he took his sock off????? OMG... the insanity... it clings...

[beeform]

I'm SO glad you posted this! I was hoping you would after I saw it on your flist. :-)

Voldemort as God? Malfoy as the angel Gabriel? Sex with goats?

Maybe she's reading different books...?

LOL!

[blue-canary.livejournal.com]

"The reason why Mrs. Rowling calls Jesus Tom is simple. In England, the saying every Tom, Dick and Harry is highly popular and in this case alludes to the omnipresence of God in our world. "

I wonder how her theory would be affected if she knew Tom Marvolo Riddle was an anagram for "I Am Lord Voldemort." Clearly, it's a reference to Jesus' message that the apocalypse will come "like a thief in the night," as did Ginny Weasely, who snuck out at night to open the chamber for Tom a.k.a Christ. Wow, I'm good...I should be a psycho Christian, too.

As for the boiling of babies and goat sex: I think she's referring to when Professor Sprout pulls the mandrakes (not actual babies) out of their pots, and to Dumbledore's reference to his brother having been disciplined for practicing "inappropriate charms on a goat," respectively. All I can say about that is that it takes a certain kind of mind to assume any reference to inappropriate activities means bestiality.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

As for the boiling of babies and goat sex: I think she's referring to when Professor Sprout pulls the mandrakes (not actual babies) out of their pots, and to Dumbledore's reference to his brother having been disciplined for practicing "inappropriate charms on a goat," respectively.

My Potter-Fu being what it is -- or isn't -- those had slipped my mind completely. Hrm. She's certainly approaching this with a much more...observant eye than I. But then, she already knows what she's looking for....

All I can say about that is that it takes a certain kind of mind to assume any reference to inappropriate activities means bestiality.

There's some serious repression going on here. For someone who leads such a godly lifestyle, she's pretty intuitive in the lecherous and lacivious.

[motteditor.livejournal.com]

Brilliant. Much enjoyed in my newsroom.

[robing.livejournal.com]

It's not just internet kooks who spout ideas like this. On my last trip to the downtown library, I noticed a book on the "new" shelf along very similar lines. I can't recall the title, but it was basically a parent's guide to all the satanic influences in modern culture. Old standbys like wicca and D&D were there, as well as Harry Potter and Pokemon. I'm still puzzling over what's satanic about Pokemon.