Importance of Halloween

[blue_and_bronze17]

No: HPFGUIDX 41785

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Jennifer Boggess Ramon <boggles at e...> 
wrote:

> Given that there's a Feast at Hogwarts every Halloween, I had 
> imagined that the Wizarding World celebrated it as sort of their 
> ethnic holiday.  It doesn't seem to have either the Pagan religious 
> associations of Samhain or the Christian ones of All Hallow's Eve 
for 
> them.

Maybe it's not so much that it's a holiday for wizards (although 
tthat could be a part of it), it also may be because Voldemort fell 
on Halloween!  In PS/SS Chapter 4, page 55 (US hardback edition) 
Hagrid says "All anyone is, he turned up . . . on *Halloween* ten 
years ago."  Professor McGonagall also mentions that day could be 
known as Harry Potter Day in the future (PS/SS Chapter 1 page 13, US 
hardback edition).  Maybe they celebrate "Harry Potter Day", but 
because Halloween is probably already such a big thing, they don't go 
so far as to change the name. Just a thought.

blue_and_bronze17