Re: Dumbledore’s funeral

[sartoris22]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
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> sartoris22 wrote:
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> > I agree with Charlotte--Amazing Grace, bagpipes or not, would violate the unstated rules of the Hary Potter universe. 
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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?).
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sartoris22:

Tradiions are a funny thing. How do we know that Muggles didn't get those traditions from wizards then claimed them as their own? Because there is no overt mention of Christianity, perhaps Christmas and saints mean something very different in the wizard world. While lingistically, Christmas might hold the greater problem, whose to say that, for wizards, (and I'm not trying blaspheme) Christ isn't considered a wizard of sorts. Perhaps wizardry is a religion of sorts. After all,  Harry is a Christ-figure, including going to a knowing death to sacrifice himself for the good of humanity. 
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