I’ve just realized what happens when I use my creativity... I’m happy.  I have rediscovered a diversion that still makes me forget any frustrations or insanity that I’ve faced during the day.  I’ve started writing again.

 

Another group of my friends has been passing around my 2006 book and one of the first few to read it implored me right after she finished it in 3 days to write another.  She asked me specifically to write about the period between the end of DH and the Epilogue that shows the main characters a few years in the future, when their kids are going to H@gwarts.  I had in mind another story and I managed to merge the two.

 

The overarching theme is spirituality.

 

JKR knows that she infused a lot of spirituality into her books, but she denies any overtly Christian themes.  I think most Christians who read the series would pull out many themes that are informed by a writer who was raised a Christian and surrounded by classic and contemporary stories with Christian themes.

 

I sort of get the impression (though others may disagree) that the Wizard world considers themselves a bit above Mugg1e religion, and put their faith in magic without any one divine God or gods.  However, there are people in the Wizard world that have a deeper spiritual connection (like people who can hear the voices beyond the veil).

 

So I wanted to explore some of that by pushing on these ideas, and the perspective of wizards on religion and spirituality by bouncing them off of a new devoutly and instinctively spiritual character.

 

 

***Summary below, if you care not about HP, just ignore :)

 

I decided to show Harry dealing with normal life after DH, raising Teddy Lupin, working on his relationship with Ginny (and working up the courage to move forward and propose) and working at Auror Headquarters.

 

Everything seems to resemble normal life until two people die mysteriously in the Arch Chamber at the D3partment of Mysteries.  While investigating with the Aurors, Harry will face the Arch for the first time since the death of this Godfather.  The mystery will involve a new character, Ruel Gilchrist, another friend of Harry’s father at Hogw@rts, and hid from Vold3mort with Sirius after PoA.  He is a seer and a spiritually connected wizard who finds himself at odds with the philosophy that Wizard spirituality is superior to Mugg1e religion, and is actually seeking to drive the two worlds back together.  Harry will have to wrestle with his own spiritual beliefs, how he has coped with the deaths of so many friends, his own brush with death, and his old ties to the Mugg1e world.  Harry may end up agreeing with a lot of what Ruel has to say.