diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'literature')
| -rw-r--r-- | literature/religionless-hp.rst | 53 |
1 files changed, 52 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/literature/religionless-hp.rst b/literature/religionless-hp.rst index 3bb295e..7ccd89a 100644 --- a/literature/religionless-hp.rst +++ b/literature/religionless-hp.rst @@ -157,7 +157,33 @@ bookmark lists): accepting it. Unfortunately, at this point when things were getting interesting, the story has been abandoned. -**{end of the insert}** +**{updated 2023-11-22}** + +I forgot few: + +10. `Harry Potter and the Knight of the Radiant Heart`_ by + Raven3182, which is rather bizarre retelling of the sixth + year (starting with the Battle of DoM), where gets + a spiritual mentor who leads him to the super!Harry status. + The most strange thing is that the main tool on his spiritual + journey (aside from the standard physical exercises) is + reading of something which looks very much like Saint Thomas + Aquinas “Summa Theologie”, but without ever mentioning the + words God or Christianity. I hoped for some discussions + related to ethics and religion, but the result is + unfortunately rather boring superHero soft philosophy (I am + not sure whether they mention literally “with great power + there must also come great responsibility”, but that kind of + fluff) and I quite dislike super!Harry theme. + +11. `The Man Who Lived`_ by Luke1813 just for the sake of + completness, a story, where Harry achieves everything he + wants and feels the emptiness of the life without God. The + author has certainly his heart in the right place, but as a + literature I was not impressed. Mentioned in the interesting + discussion_ on the Reddit by `/u/AntoniusScriptor`_ + +**{end of the inserts}** The crazy thing is that it seems to me this is really it. If anybody knows about any other good religious wizarding story (no @@ -182,6 +208,19 @@ mocking, no anti-religious) let me know. nobody does anything about it. There are no prayers (almost, at least no explicit ones), no sacrifices, no priests, etc. + Tolkien himself wrote about it: + + The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally + religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at + first, but consciously in the revision. That is why + I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all + references to anything like “religion,” to cults or + practices, in the imaginary world. For the religious + element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism. + + -- a letter to a priest, Fr. Robert Murray (The + Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, 142) + .. _`was the christening`: https://web.archive.org/web/20110927060621/http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/news_view.cfm?id=80 @@ -215,3 +254,15 @@ mocking, no anti-religious) let me know. .. _PUSH: https://archiveofourown.org/works/55647 + +.. _`Harry Potter and the Knight of the Radiant Heart`: + https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9203082 + +.. _`The Man Who Lived`: + https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13874020 + +.. _discussion: + https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/16k9kwx/comment/k0ul0wa + +.. _`/u/AntoniusScriptor`: + https://www.reddit.com/user/Antonius_Scriptor/ |