JK Rowling reveals Christian basis for 'Harry Potter'
“Every time I've been asked if I believe in God, I've said yes, because I do, but no one ever really has gone any more deeply into it than that, and I have to say that does suit me, because if I talk too freely about that I think the intelligent reader, whether 10 or 60, will be able to guess what's coming in the books,” she told the Vancouver Sun on Oct 26, 2000.
However, in the final book of the seven-part saga, Rowling introduces the first explicit reference to Christian faith. In the Deathly Hallows, Harry Potter visits the grave of his parents on Christmas Eve in a church graveyard and reads the inscription on the headstone: "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death."...