[HPforGrownups] The Potter's Deathly Halloween was Re: Could Deathly Hallows refer to Harry going beyond the veil

[Janette]

No: HPFGUIDX 163319

>
> Stacey:
>
> I only have my French edition handy and provided they aren't split
> differently, it's Chapter 4.  I have to say that until I started rereading
> the series (although this is the first time in French) I, too, had a hard
> time remembering that it was on Halloween that the Potters met their
> untimely death.  Truthfully, I would have expected some other mention of
> it
> when Vernon Dursley is seeing all the caped people (like "..although they
> did seem a bit old to be still participating in the Halloween thing") or
> on
> the TV about the owls and shooting stars (like "Strange things have been
> known to happen on this day but.").  I'm actually not sure if the shooting
> stars and owls are meant to happen on the same day of the killing or, I
> strongly suspect, the day after (which would be odd as well since, in
> France
> at least, no one works on All Saints Day and Vernon was clearly at work).
> Even if it were supposed to be the day after Halloween that the caped
> people, owls and shooting stars take place, you would figure there would
> be
> some mentioning of the oddness of these sights to the odd things that go
> on
> around Halloween.


montims:
In the UK, All Saints Day is not a holiday - I think that's only in Catholic
countries,,,  And Hallowe'en is not celebrated like in America - while some
individuals have parties, and some children have leapt on the "trick or
treat" wagon, you don't usually see people wandering around in strange
costumes these days, and definitely not in the 80s, so the wizards would
have stood out...


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