[HPforGrownups] Re: Christianity and HP

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 112249

Holidays like Christmas and Hallowe'en and Easter and Valentine's Day
and fill-in-the-blank-day have all moved into the vernacular,
everyday culture of most Western countries.  

There's no indication in the books that they're important except for
the opportunity for time off classes or special feasts or
embarassingly syrupy poems delivered by surly goblins.  

Looking for signs of religious themes based on these holidays being
present in the books is a dead-end task, I'm afraid.  

Also: some people have seen JKR's comments about Harry's non-existent
godmother and the "ceremony" that attended Sirius being the godfather
as some kind of proof of religion being present.  Again, I think it
reflects that fact that there are some ceremonies and events in
peoples lives that are special and that therefore take place in a
church.  Many people today never set foot inside a church unless
they're attending a wedding, a funeral or a baptism.  

I suspect the wizarding world is the same, which is what gives the
series that "real" feeling.

Magda


		
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