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

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 128500

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

Tonks:
Sirius' song about the Hippogriffs for those here who may not know 
is:  "God rest ye merry gentlemen let nothing you dismay, remember 
Christ our savior was born on Christmas day, to save us all from 
Satan's power when we had gone astray
 "  

Like the pagans on this list that are amazed at how far the 
Christians will stretch things to see so many *Christian* symbols in 
HP, I am also amazed at the lengths folks will go to so as to *not* 
see the Christian references in HP.  Do you really think that all of 
these little coincidences that are in the book are just that?  JKR 
writes like a mystery author, like Dorothy Sayers some say.  Don't 
you think that maybe, just maybe there really is a message there??  
How many coincidences can there be in one series before 
 *if it 
quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, walks like a duck*
 just 
maybe
   

Tonks_op