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Have you read "Looking for God in Harry Potter" by John Granger? He's an Orthodox Christian and makes an incredibly detailed case in the book. When the book came out, only four of the HP books were out, but based on a lot of this, Granger makes a lot of good guesses where the series was going.

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'Looking for God in Harry Potter' went through four editions; the last one was published in 2008 after 'Deathly Hallows' and was retitled 'How Harry Cast His Spell.'

For a more esoteric interpretation of the finale, see 'The Deathly Hallows Lectures.'

For the chiastic structure of each book and the seven book series as a whole, see 'Harry Potter as Ring composition and Ring Cycle.'

For the literary allusion and the four traditional levels of reading a book, see 'Harry Potter's Bookshelf.'

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