"...learning the contours of a fictional world or the intricacies of an author's methods always takes time. Robert Penn Warren commented that the most 'intuitive and immediate' reading of a poem will likely not come at a first reading, but rather at the tenth or even the fiftieth reading. To grasp the whole, one must, he speculated, be able not only to remember the beginning of the poem, but remember its end; one must be able to 'remember forward.' Patience, in short, is an essential quality of a good reader, and this too is an act of humility...

Harry Potter creator JK Rowling has been quoted all over the Internet as saying that she is happy that her books have produced a surge in children's involvement in Satanism. This quotation has been used as evidence that the Potter books are infernal propaganda. The original source of the quotation, however, was a story from a satirical electronic magazine. For anyone who took a moment to check the original source, and took another moment to ask about the tone of the article, it was clear that the author was mocking hysterical responses to Rowling's books. It must be a delicious irony to the article's author that the satire has become fuel for even more hysteria.

Though they may be harsh opponents of postmodernism, readers who took that Rowling quote at face value are as domineering and prideful in their reading practices as any deconstructionist. But how was one to know that the Rowling quotation was a fake? The text did not come with a label "Satire." The author expected the readers to recognize the clues and read in submission to them. Quick and ignorant judgments such as these are not only an embarrassment that often makes Christians, quite rightly, objects of ridicule. Far worse, the misreadings signal an appalling lack of Christian character. Patience before the text is not merely a readerly virtue. It is a fruit of the Spirit."

from "Authors, Authority, and The Humble Reader by Peter J. Leithart (The Christian Imagination, edited by Leland Ryken)

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