Hallowe'en

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 119321


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "khinterberg" 
<khinterberg at y...> wrote:

khinterberg:
> I was wondering if perhaps Jo chose the night of Halloween as the
> night of the attack at Godric's Hollow not only to immediately make 
us
> connect with a story of witches and wizards, but if perhaps there 
was
> a deeper meaning.  Halloween has morphed from the Celtic feast day 
of
> Samhain, the beginning of winter.  This was one of the four nights 
of
> the year when the gods drew nearer to the earthly world.  Could 
there
> be some significance in this for why Voldy attacked young Harry on a
> night that the gods would be close to the earth?

Geoff:
Well, Hallowe'en - or to give it its proper name All Hallows Eve - 
precedes All Saints' Day, which is somewhat forgotten nowadays but 
was one of the special holy days in the early church. Samhain was a 
time when the dead were believed to walk the earth again for a night 
and the idea passed over into the church with the idea extended that 
it was evil beings who walked abroad on the Eve.

So I would see Voldemort - being evil to the core - considering it 
something of a coup to attack the Potters on this particular day.

Geoff
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