[HPforGrownups] Re: Religion in HP

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No: HPFGUIDX 40523

Jenny from Ravenclaw:

> I don't think JKR sat down and thought "Okay, my Wizarding World is 
> all Christian", but I'm willing to bet that she is, and most of the 
> people she knows are, too.  If JKR was Jewish, she would have most 
> likely changed the wording of these holidays to something more 
> generic, like Winter Holidays or Spring Break.  I just don't think she 
> thought about it one way or the other.
> 

But as someone else has pointed out, she is simply following the normal 
British school holiday pattern, together with its usual names. In this 
context, the phrases Winter Holidays and Spring Break, though quite neutral 
in meaning, do sound incredibly American (and rather self-consciously PC) to 
British ears, strange as that may seem. 

Eloise


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