Eneasz Brodsky
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But the whole Hermione doesn't even need to be alive to beat Quirrell very much reminds me of the Jesus thing in Christianity.
The other guy who doesn't have to be alive.
Yeah, I knew that ring a bell.
Yeah, he dies, and yet he wins through dying.
And, you know, for the first couple centuries of Christianity, they all just like were, yep, we're going to our death, and this is how we're going to win.
And it worked.
And that's kind of insane.
Like this... I don't know if...
Part of the reason the story works is because it almost is a recapitulation of the story that in the Western world we were all raised with or at least raised around.
It's almost the evil power temptation of the devil versus the, I don't have nearly as much power as you in the real world, but I am good.
And then the good will win.
Even if I die, it'll go on after me.
I mean, that's every good story, not every good story, but that's, that's a lot of good stories.
I think that is, again, a lot because it's recapitulating the myth that we are born with as people in a Christian society or, you know, Christian based society.
No, for sure.
I was just saying that there's other examples of the same kind of.
Yes.
I don't know.
I really love it.
And seeing more reflections of Christianity in my world as I continue onward, it makes me think like, what the hell exactly was going on here?