In the age of innovation and information, there is little that people cannot discover with the help of the internet. Dynamic and complex concepts can be diluted into a mere sentence for almost anyone to understand. Yet, there are transmundane terms that cannot be fully grasped or understood, though many have tried. Religion, and its definition, is one of those terms. Superficially, it seems like a relatively easy phenomenon, but as soon as the attempt is made to solidify the definition, exceptions can be argued. For example, if religion is defined as a “complex set of beliefs, behaviors, and experiences rooted in some notion of transmundane reality thought of as Ultimate Being” it can very well be speaking about Christians, Hindus, Jainist…or
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For example, as a character Harry Potter is the sacred person of the movement. Harry is the only one that can defeat the Dark Lord. He is the chosen-one, much like other sacred persons of religious faiths. Harry Potter can even be considered a prophet. The ultimate source, rather than a god, would be the magic in the wizarding world because it is what wizards cherish the most, and what distinguish’ them from the muggles or squids (wizards born without magic). Though Harry did not worship magic per se, it was his magical capabilities that allowed him to have a mental link to Voldemort that gave him access to visions, speaking with his dead family, and capabilities such as speaking parseltongue. The visions can be interpreted as divine relations, parseltongues as the ability to perform miracles, and the warnings from dead kin are similar to messengers of the divine -such as the angel Gabriel was for Muhammad. These abilities, allow Harry to be an ethical prophet like Moses. For example, in the Hebrew Bible, Moses was the chosen one to take God’s people out of enslavement in Egypt and lead them to the promised land. Similarly, Harry was chosen to defeat the Dark Lord Voldemort and lead the wizarding world to a new age without Death Eaters trying to bring the world into darkness. Moses confronts the Pharaoh, by being able to turn his staff into a snake and part the red sea; Harry leads the fight against these evil forces by acting as the figurehead to Dumbledore’s Army –a militaristic group formed of students from Hogwarts in order to secretly fight back, and uses his mindlink to Voldemort to stay one-step ahead of the Death
For example, as a character Harry Potter is the sacred person of the movement. Harry is the only one that can defeat the Dark Lord. He is the chosen-one, much like other sacred persons of religious faiths. Harry Potter can even be considered a prophet. The ultimate source, rather than a god, would be the magic in the wizarding world because it is what wizards cherish the most, and what distinguish’ them from the muggles or squids (wizards born without magic). Though Harry did not worship magic per se, it was his magical capabilities that allowed him to have a mental link to Voldemort that gave him access to visions, speaking with his dead family, and capabilities such as speaking parseltongue. The visions can be interpreted as divine relations, parseltongues as the ability to perform miracles, and the warnings from dead kin are similar to messengers of the divine -such as the angel Gabriel was for Muhammad. These abilities, allow Harry to be an ethical prophet like Moses. For example, in the Hebrew Bible, Moses was the chosen one to take God’s people out of enslavement in Egypt and lead them to the promised land. Similarly, Harry was chosen to defeat the Dark Lord Voldemort and lead the wizarding world to a new age without Death Eaters trying to bring the world into darkness. Moses confronts the Pharaoh, by being able to turn his staff into a snake and part the red sea; Harry leads the fight against these evil forces by acting as the figurehead to Dumbledore’s Army –a militaristic group formed of students from Hogwarts in order to secretly fight back, and uses his mindlink to Voldemort to stay one-step ahead of the Death