The best chapter by chapter breakdown of DH I've seen yet

[gillieweed.livejournal.com]

"Dan Hemmens says a lot of hilarious (and very true) things about DH."


Thanks to valis2 for this!

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Church of Scotland =/= Church of England

[cressida0201.livejournal.com]

She's not Episcopalian. Episcopalians are the American branch of the Church of England. JKR grew up in the Church of Scotland. One might be forgiven for thinking that was the Scottish branch of the Church of England, but it isn't. I looked it up as part of a recent discussion (I think it was on your LJ, actually!), and they are definitely Calvinist. The Church of England doesn't believe in predestination; the Church of Scotland does.

Re: Church of Scotland =/= Church of England

[cressida0201.livejournal.com]

Also, I see the indignant mouse is claiming that JKR isn't actually a member of the Church of Scotland. But a quick Google search turned up quite a lot of sites, including the HP Lexicon, who say that she is a member (see the "Church of Scotland" entry here (http://www.hp-lexicon.org/muggle/encyc/muggle-c.html), for example).

Re: Church of Scotland =/= Church of England

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if you're disagreeing with me or the anon guy--what you're saying here is what I meant. I thought that the anon person was claiming that JKR was "Episcopalian" and it seemed to me that if she were that she would call it "Church of England" and not Episcopalian, because Episcopalian is, as you say, American. So just claiming she was that sounded wrong right off.

I didn't know what she'd actually grown up as but I believe you--Church of Scotland. Anon seems to be wrong both ways.

Re: Church of Scotland =/= Church of England

[cressida0201.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm disagreeing with the anonymouse. Sorry if I was unclear! (I've gone over to post on the thread linked.)

Re: Church of Scotland =/= Church of England

[gillieweed.livejournal.com]

I'd heard or read an interview in which it was said she was a member of the Church of Scotland as one one of the posters finally pointed out. And as you found out, the CoS is most certainly Calvinist.

The reason I'm waiting for this to show up on F-W is because this is the exact argument antianell93 has been using for a long time now and has been routinely trounced for it.

The "anonymous" poster looks like a "wanka" to me--at the very least a wanka wannabe.