Guy Fawkes really a wizard? (was: God in HP World/Folktales and Religion)

[lucky_kari]

No: HPFGUIDX 34196

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "blpurdom" <blpurdom at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "christi0469" <christi0469 at h...> wrote:
> >  But we see no mention of Guy Fawkes Day/Bonfire Night at 
> > Hogwarts.  Certainly all the Muggle-born wizards and witches 
would 
> > miss such a festive celebration, with the fireworks and all.  
> 
> Perhaps JKR will reveal that Guy Fawkes was a wizard, and so 
burning 
> him in effigy would be the last thing the wizarding world would be 
> inclined to do.  (And he only made the Muggles think he'd been 
> killed, but really escaped just as handily as those witches and 
> wizards who pretended to be burned during the Middle Ages.)  GF 
> could have used magic to try to blow up Parliament, but the Muggles 
> merely ASSUMED it was gunpowder and other ordnance....

Explaining why Dumbledore has a pet named after Fawkes. This puts 
another spin on the religion in HP argument, since Fawkes was 
responding to the supression of Catholics by the gov't. I'm not sure 
I want to go there. 

About religion in general, I've heard a whole lot of awfully 
unconvincing arguments about the references to God, saints etc. in 
HP, running along the lines of, "Well, in the UK, we are very secular 
and still mention these things." However, no matter how secular the 
UK, Christianity still exists there. The wizarding world could be 
extremely secular, and Christianity will still be a part of it. 

Eileen