Wizarding holidays

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No: HPFGUIDX 111155

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> 
wrote:
> 
> > HunterGreen:
> snip
>  On  this subject, isn't it odd that Harry always happily 
celebrates 
> > Halloween even though its the anniversary of his parents' murder?
> > 

It's possible, of course, that the reason Halloween is such a big 
deal in the Wizarding World is that it celebrates Voldemort's defeat 
some 15 years ago. Maybe it's really The Boy Who Lived Day.

With regards to the whole holiday idea, there is a letter to the 
editor in one of the Daily Prophets that Jo wrote in 1999 for 
Bloomsbury where someone suggests a Merlin Remembrance Day around 
the first of August just because he wants a day off work. Quotage:

   Dear Sir: Is it not time that the wizaring 
   community set aside a day to honour the 
   greatest wizard of this or any age? I could 
   do with an extra day's holiday around August. 
      Yours in hope, 
      Harold Skively. 

Steve
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