OOP: what we forget with Sirus and James and Harry /Xmas

[D.G.]

No: HPFGUIDX 68840

Marina wrote:

How did you like the beards and Santa Claus hats on heads of dead
house elves with which Sirius decorated his house?

I thought it was highly amusing, but not in the best taste. Sirius'
sense of humor, like many other aspects of his personality, appears 
to be frozen at the same level it was at before he went to Azkaban --
and he wasn't exactly a sterling example of maturity back then, 
either. In many ways, his characters is still that of an angry and 
rebellious teenager...

Me:

My goodness, my friend -- methinx ye'r channeling Hermione at her 
huffiest!  

Holidays such as Yuletide (i.e, Saturnalia) --onto which Christmas 
was, after all, grafted-- have traditionally been a time for all 
manner of tricksters, imps, and other Lords of Misrule to wreak merry 
havoc upon the world.  If anyone might realize this, and could play 
along in the grand tradition, it would be a bunch of Wizards.  I 
think Sirius' playful transformation of dead house elves into gnome-
like verions of Father Christmas was a classic act of this sort.

D.G.  ("JazzmanChgo")