Christians in HP - in a purely historical way(was:Re: Christianity in HP)

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03"
<horridporrid03 at y...> wrote:

  Sirius was also 
> singing a *very* Christian Christmas carol in OotP, one the choir 
> was not allowed to sing at my very secular public school in NYC.  
> True, he mixed the words up, and God rest ye merry gentleman became 
> God rest ye merry Hippogriffs, but the fact he knew the carol and 
> enjoyed singing it suggests that he's been raised a Christian.  (If 
> he'd been converted via James or Lily, I feel like the song would be 
> so new and holy to him, he wouldn't mess with the words.)
> 
I'd say he was singing a traditional British Christmas Carol. I'm not
British, I'm not a Christian and even I know that song. The first time
I heard it  was on a British Christmas TV film when I was a child.
Maybe someone British can shed light on this, but I think it would be
near impossible to be raised in Britain and not know it and other
traditonals. 

Gerry