What does Christmas represent to the WW?

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 95214

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> 
> Alia wrote: 
> >   So as far as the WW is 
> > > concerned, which is it?  Do they know, or believe in God and 
> Jesus in the same way we do, if at all?  
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> Then Serena wrote: 
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 Those are the traditional holiday time in England when 
students get time off.   It's simple a way of refrencing them that 
people can easily recognize and relate to.
> > 
> > Halloween is included I think because it is a holiday with very 
> > magical conotations so it seems appropriate that it should be a 
big  deal in her magical world.  
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> Lilian here:
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> 
And perhaps it is also part of the influence of the Muggle-WW 
> marriages, the Muggle tradition slowly seeping in during the past 
> centuries.
> 
> The latter could explain (partly) Snapes bad mood when celebrating 
> Christmas in POA. If he is a pureblood and thinks nothing of 
Muggles, then it is not unlikely that he thinks nothing of 
celebrating  Christmas (yak! Muggle feasts!) either.


Potioncat:
It could be that England has been Christian long enought that the 
magic world absorbed the holidays.  Or it could be that the old 
pagan holidays that the Christians absorbed is what the WW is 
celebrating.  

Mary Stewart wrote a series about Merlin in which the old ways and 
new ways are starting to merge. Not sure if JKR ever read it.

Anyway in the RW lots of people celebrate Christmas who give no 
thought to the basis of it.

Potioncat who wonders if in the WW Father Christmas is real? (I do 
believe I do! I do!)