Merlin Comment on Hog Pro Thread

For any who still check our site and are interested, I recently responded on a Hogwarts Professor "mail-bag" post concerning whether the Judah and Tamar story of Genesis 38 contains a source for the hallows in Deathly Hallows. I also posted a response to a question by another commenter in that same thread concerning name taboo and rhetoric (a question concerning possible name rhetoric in the Pharaoh material/s in the Pentateuch, as relating to the name taboo trope in Harry Potter ... basically I answered that I cannot substantiate at all the claims for the Pentateuch material, but I was able to throw in some stuff about name taboo and rhetoric in Half Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows that I find really fun). Finally, I posted a further response thought on that thread concerning how I DO think Gen 38 could have a relation, or at least a significance for JKR, although not as a direct source for the hallows. So, for any who check this blog and are interested, click on the title link for this post ... and if that doesn't work, copy and paste this link into your browser's address bar: http://www.hogwartsprofessor.com/mailbag-three-hallows-spotted-in-book-of-genesis/comment-page-1