Harry Potter in Real Life

I was going to write a blog about The Hobbit, but as I don't want to give any huge spoilers of such a new movie I decided to blog about Harry Potter as I feel that most people have who want to see this series have already seen it.  This blog will specifically focus on the last book or last movie.  As such, YOU HAVE BEEN FOREWARNED!  THERE WILL BE MAJOR SPOILERS OF HARRY POTTER IN THIS BLOG.

For people who haven't seen or read Harry Potter I will give a brief synopsis.  Harry lives with his extended family who are cruel and do not care about him until he receives an invitation to go to Hogwarts, a wizarding school.  Of course, Harry is baffled by this as he did not know that wizards existed until he was told about it.  Through the course of the series you find out about Voldemort, an evil wizard who killed Harry's parents and tried to kill Harry as a baby (obviously unsuccessfully).  Then Harry decides that he is going to kill Voldemort to put a stop to his evil.  However it it not as simple as one may think.  You see, Voldemort (through magic) has divided his soul and put it into different objects so Harry must find each object and destroy it.  Once again, this sounds simple.  However, Harry discovers that he is one of the objects.  As such, Harry goes under the pretense of dueling Voldemort when in reality he is going to go die.  And then, after Voldemort kills Harry, and Harry has willingly died, Harry is alive.  Harry willingly died.  He died to save the world from an evil that couldn't otherwise be defeated.

I really like the Harry Potter series.  It reminds me of this world.  In Harry Potter's world, the nonmagic people are called muggles.  The muggles are completely unaware of the wizarding world.  These battles happen nearly completely unnoticed.  In our world there are forces battling for good and evil that we are most oftentimes unaware of.  In our world we have been saved by the wholly perfect (and holy) sacrifice of Jesus Christ.  He saved us from an unspeakable evil by willingly dying for us (a gruesome and humiliating death to say the least).  He saved us from our own wrongdoings.  And then, Jesus rose three days after his death.  Pretty cool, huh?

If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.  For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.

Romans 10:9-10

Living in Reckless Abandonment for Jesucristo,

Jo