Funerals are for the living

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 128323

Tonks wrote:

> I think that religion is very quitely in the background. They 
> observe Christmas and Easter. Pagan wizards would not do that.

a_svirn:

I believe "observe" is too strong a word. "Easter" in the series is 
but a name traditionally used to denote a break between the two terms, 
as for Christmas it takes the most secular form imaginable. I think 
even "pagan wizards" should they chanced to be at Hogwarts on 
Christmas Eve wouldn't mind kissing under Mistletoe and opening 
presents.  

Tonks:
She has smuggled religion into the 
> US schools!!  But not many people know it because they do not 
> understand the symbols that they are reading. JKR has the Hogwarts 
> motto "never tickle a sleeping dragon" for a reason. And I for one 
> just love it!!!  

a_svirn:

Well, it appears you know something that I don't.

a_svirn