Comparing God And The Devil In The Holy Bible

The theme of Good vs Evil, weaving continuously like an unbreakable thread from beginning to end, provides a framework for the plot of the novel. It sets the stage for the primary conflict, and for the eventual presentation of Rowling's message. Despite insurmountable obstacles, Good will always triumph over Evil. This claim has been defended, opposed, and challenged both in literature and in history. One of the most well known instances of such a claim, is in the struggle existing between God and The Devil in The Holy Bible. In the Book of Revelation, the end of days is written as a time when the forces of heaven are set against the forces of Satan, "There was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven" (MacArthur "The MacArthur New Testament Commentary"). Placed at analogous points in their respective novels, the two culminating tales mirror each other. The end of days is marked by a final battle. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,

We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come" (MacArthur "The MacArthur New Testament Commentary") and there will be a final defeat of all evil. In the tail end of the novel, Harry Potter is killed by Lord Voldemort, and journeys to a heavenly location, an almost limbo state, in which he is able to converse briefly with Dumbledore. From there, he is resurrected and returns to the land of the living to defeat the now mortal Lord Voldemort a final time. This is an unmistakable parallel, in which Harry Potter is cast as the Jesus Christ figure come to destroy the evil on earth, and Lord Voldemort as that evil. Lord Voldemort is defeated, and the survivors were overjoyed as remnants of his evil began to revert