Religion

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

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From: catlady_de_los_angeles
Subject: Re: Religion
Reply To: [Yahoo! #6209] Religion
Date: 8/8/00 3:11 am  (ET)

I hope you have access to the Web and not just e-mail and you don't pay
for Web access by the minute, because there are SO MANY archived posts
about Religion in HP. I personally believe that all the 'old wizarding
families' are a bunch of Anglicans and Hogwart's has Anglican religious
services on Sundays, which might make a conflict for Catholic and Hindu
and Muslim and Jewish, etc, students. I have only the very limited
evidence that they celebrate Christmas and Easter, not Winter Break and
Spring Break, but the celebrations depicted are throughly secular.

If the wizarding world is a throughly atheist culture with only secular
holidays, that could cause just as much conflict for students with
religious beliefs -- even if only Muggle-born students have religious
beliefs.

The one thing that I (as a Wiccan) have seen No Sign of in HP is Wicca
or Paganism. I wish it *were* there, because I want to play in that world
and I don't want to have leave my religion behind, but that's how it is.

> The Weasley's seem like a Catholic family for some reason. Maybe it's
the housefull of kids,

I like to think that they have so many kids because they kept trying for a
girl. Of course, there is that remark of Draco's about "all the Weasleys"
have "more children than they can afford", which suggests that Arthur
came from a big family and all his brothers had big families, too. So
where are all the Weasley kids' first cousins? And second cousins? Why
aren't they at Hogwart's? Especially as there is reason to believe that
Hogwart's is the only wizarding school for all of Britain and Ireland.