Re: Dumbledore’s funeral

[Carol]

sartoris22 wrote:
 
> I agree with Charlotte--Amazing Grace, bagpipes or not, would violate the unstated rules of the Hary Potter universe. The Muggle and Wizard worlds are quite separate. Consider the music they danced to at the Yule Ball. Was any of it music that existd in the Muggle world? Besides, the whole point to Wiards is that they do things differently from Muggles. Funnily enough, there is no mention of any Muggle art or artist in either the books or movies, right? Oh yes, Hermione mentions a Cinderella in Deathly Hallows when Ron is explaining Beedle the Bard.
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Carol responds:
OTOH, they celebrate Christmas, they have the concept of saints (St. Mungo's), and Sirius Black parodies "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" with "God Rest Ye, Merry Hippogriffs" (either JKR or her copyeditor doesn't know where the comma goes). The WW also had monks and friars at some point--and they still have godfathers. I think that the WW and the Muggle world shared the same traditions until the Statute of Secrecy was passed in 1692 (or 1687, if we accept the date given in DH--where is the consistency editor when you need her?).

Carol, who nevertheless thinks that we'd be better off with an eerie, mournful, and unintelligible chorus from the merpeople than with bagpipes playing anything in the DD funeral scene