[HPforGrownups] Religion and Protected!Vernon

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 58460

Ejom wrote:
>Another tangent if I may: The whole Godfather issue and Christianity
>viewpoint.  Hogwarts celebrates Christmas and Easter, so it is not a
>place that has differentiated itself from religion.  The Fat Friar
>(as someone has previously noted) is a Catholic monk.

Though canon would also support a reading which sees the WW (possibly the
Potterverse as a whole) as having left religion behind - the Friar is after
all, dead centuries ago. Although Hogwarts has its holidays at Xmas and
Easter, that could just be a hangover from an earlier time - the Scottish
courts used to have a "Beltane" term for example, down to the 18th century,
but that didn't mean that Scottish lawyers and judges were followers of the
Celtic religion, any more than a Victorian gentleman saying "By Jove" or "By
Jiminy" would have done so to indicate that he was a follower of the Roman
pantheon!

Reading the Potterverse as basically secular would also explain why no one
in it (particularly parents) seems to have the problems with the setup that
Christians have with the books in our world...

Meanwhile, Kelly wrote:
>someone had tried to hurt them.  I also notice that she had no problems
with
>Vernon going to work, but stayed with Petunia the whole day.   Then again,
>there were plenty of other wizards around Vernon's workplace.  Perhaps one
>of them was there to make sure nothing untoward happened to him as well.

I don't remember them being described as being in close proximity to
Grunnnings, just that Vernon saw a lot of them on his way to work.

It's actually a particularly interesting passage for me, and the only one
which sets the two communities side by side, apparently showing that there
are rather more wizards around than some people think...

Cheers

Ffred

O Benryn wleth hyd Luch Reon
Cymru yn unfryd gerhyd Wrion
Gwret dy Cymry yghymeiri