Monday, January 23, 2012

Epiphany! Wormtail vs. Wormwood

I started The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis today and I realized that J.K. Rowling got her name for a character from The Screwtape Letters which got its name from The Bible. I feel like Sherlock Holmes! Haha, except it is probably a known fact to every intellectual but still I feel pretty proud(flaw). The word Wormwood first appears in the book of Revelations in the Bible: Rev 8:10-11 "And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter." In the Screwtape Letters, Wormwood is the minion of the devil. The story is a collection of letters written from the devil (screwtape) to Wormwood, telling him how to keep man away from God. (It is absolutely amazing but I'll go into detail about that later)  The book was published in 1942. In Harry potter, voldemort has a right hand man named wormwood. Voldemort is obviously very much like the devil.
Many people think that the harrry potter series is evil and sacrilegious, but there are many Christian connections. Now, I do know that Rowling isn't a Christian and didn't intend for this to be a spirtitual guide, but there are many similarites.

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