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

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 128485

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "festuco" <vuurdame at x> wrote:
Gerry:
> 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. 

Geoff:
If a British person, not used to going to church or Christmas services, 
wanted to sing a carol or something "Christmassy", I don't think "God 
rest you merry, gentlemen" would be in the top ten. It's one of the 
lesser used carols. More likely choices would possibly include "Silent 
Night", "Hark the Herald Angels Sing", "O little Town of Bethlehem" 
and "Once in Royal Dvaid's City" or even songs like "Good King 
Wenceslas" or "Jingle Bells".

If this was Sirius' choice [and not JKR's :-)], I'd think he had a good 
repertoire of carols from which to draw.