Godparents & religion again Re: Harry's Relatives on fathers side

Morag Traynor moragt at hotmail.com
Tue Apr 17 09:14:46 UTC 2001


No: HPFGUIDX 16980

Just MHO, but it's my belief a child can have any number (within reason, 
obviously) of godparents, of either sex - i.e. there doesn't have to be a 
godmother for every godfather.  It is not unheard of for a child to have 
four or five godparents.

The fact that Harry has a godfather does rather seem to imply he was 
christened - one of the extremely rare references (if you can call it a 
reference) to religion in the canon.  But of course Sirius is really in good 
old folklore tradition a "fairy-godfather"- Snuffles, why are you growling 
like that?  Down boy!
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