I'm doing an interview/discussion with Richard Abanes author of "Harry Potter and the Bible", "Fantasy and your Family", and "Harry Potter, Narnia, and The Lord of the Rings".  He's been established as a Harry Potter critic, and no I don't agree with him entirely.  But I think he's the most rational voice the HP objectors have.  And I do think he makes several good points.

Anyway, we're doing this bit by bit over e-mail, so I'm still welcoming questions.  

You can read the first part here:
http://community.livejournal.com/christian_hpfan/43064.html

Dumbledore says this to Draco in HBP Ch 27 (page 591 in my copy).

It just struck me how significant this statement is in a religious light.  Dumbledore is offering Draco salvation from the Death Eaters.  But it requires Draco dying in some sense... (now Dumbledore probably means a staged death, but even so Draco would have to leave his old life behind.)  I've been taught to think of death as separation.  So basically Draco would have to seperate from his old life.  The old Draco would "die", and he'd take on some new identity in Dumbleore's/the Order's service.

The Christian parallel is that we must die to live also and need Christ's help (Dumbledore standing in as savior figure to Draco even as he is dying) to do so.  The old man, the sinful nature in us dies away, so that we can take up a new life saved from the destruction that Satan intends for us.

Voldemort is a very Satan like character in HBP.  It just made me think, how being "already dead" we become beyond Satan's reach to destroy.