festivals/elemental houses

[polgara_sorceress_the]

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No: HPFGUIDX C2799
From: polgara_sorceress_the
Subject: festivals/elemental houses
Reply To: [Yahoo! #2787] Elemental Houses
Date: 6/25/00 8:11 am  (ET)

Of course the fact that they call them Easter Halloween and Christmas
rather than Ostara, Samhain and Yule suggests that they are celebrating
them as Christian festivals rather than pagan Festivals. As many of the
students were muggle born they would not know the significance of the
pagan festiavlas, only the christian ones