What does Christmas represent to the WW?

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No: HPFGUIDX 95311

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67"
<justcarol67 at y...> 
wrote:
>
> Carol:
> He didn't know where to place the comma, though--or JKR and her
editor
> didn't. It's "God rest ye merry, gentlemen (or hippogriffs)," not
"God
> rest ye, merry gentlemen (or hippogriffs)."
> 
> Carol, betting that Sirius didn't know what "God rest ye merry"
means

Sue B:

Very true, but then, most people don't know where that comma goes or
what 
it means, any more than they know that there is no comma in
"Wherefore art 
thou Romeo?" (because it means "why" not "where"). You don't have to
be a 
wizard for that! :-)

Actually, I'd LOVE to know what the next line is in "God Rest Ye
Merry 
Hippogriffs" (with or without the comma). My guess is that the WW
didn't 
become a culture for quite a few centuries and until then, they had
to live in 
the Muggle community, perhaps wondering why they could do things
others 
couldn't. So they would have had the same customs as everyone else.
We're 
told (by Hagrid?) that there are very few, if any, true "purebloods"
left.

Just a thought.