I agree, the Christ symbolism is really overt, isn't it? I think it's kind of cool and ballsy, actually, to make Harry Potter into Jesus. :)

I agree with much of what you said - I just wasn't feeling that thoughtful when I wrote this post. ;) You boggled my mind a bit when you said HP was older than us (I was born in '81), and then I realized that Deathly Hallows takes place in like..1997? So he is younger in the book, but older "right now". That's kind of funny!