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(More customer reviews)I have recently begun reading John Killinger's work, The Life, Death and Resurrection of Harry Potter. Being a clergyman, Killinger poses an interesting thesis. He finds a theological undertone to the entire J. K. Rowling series about the boy wizard. To his thesis, I pose no judgment. It is a fascinating one at that, but not alone in literature. Certainly one can find Christ figures in Superman, C. S. Lewis' works, Melville's, et al. What disturbed me most was Killinger's lack of in-depth research, or perhaps understanding, of the basic facts of the Rowling series. On page 58 he writes, "...Harry pauses at the end of a difficult race to allow his chief competitor from Huffelpuff House, a boy named Cedric Diggory..." Diggory was not in Huffelpuff House, but in Gryfindor.
While this may seem a trival point, and admittedly it probably is, when you consider the rest of the book, and the thesis posed I think it would be good to at least have facts correct.
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