[HPforGrownups] Re: significant dates (was characters' star signs)

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 79250

bluesqueak wrote:

> [Muggle Britain now holds the Halloween Feast in two parts.
> Halloween itself, and Bonfire Night on November 5th. I notice that
> the Hogwarts students *don't* celebrate Bonfire Night, which dates
> from the early 17th Century]

IIRC the original name for Bonfire Night is Guy Fawkes Day, and
it commemorates a specific event in English history (the foiling
of the Gunpowder Plot, a plot by Guy Fawkes and his fellow
conspirators to blow up the Houses of Parliament).

It could be that despite the soubriquet of a certain phoenix, the
WW is uninterested enough in the details of Muggle history to
commemorate the event.


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>