Rowling on religion

J.K. Rowling comments more extensively about Christian imagery in Harry Potter.

Some of this she's said before but some of it's new. In particular she comments about the tombstone quotes and the books' epigraphs. Also:

"The truth is that, like Graham Greene, my faith is sometimes that my faith will return. It's something I struggle with a lot," she revealed. "On any given moment if you asked me [if] I believe in life after death, I think if you polled me regularly through the week, I think I would come down on the side of yes — that I do believe in life after death. [But] it's something that I wrestle with a lot. It preoccupies me a lot, and I think that's very obvious within the books."

And:

For her part, Rowling said she's proud to be on numerous banned-book lists. As for the protests of some believers? Well, she doesn't take them as gospel.

"I go to church myself," she declared. "I don't take any responsibility for the lunatic fringes of my own religion."

[via Get Religion]

(I just can't help chuckling when I recall all the dire fundamentalist warnings about the Satanism of Harry Potter. Or the gleeful secularist claims about Harry Potter's implicit atheism. And now MTV, corrupter of America's youth, is setting the record straight. Ah, sweet, sweet irony.)