Puzzlement of the day

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 166300

 
> Shelley:
> > My theory is that a Wizard Godfather is the same as a normal
Godfather--someone that
> > is supposed to take care of you if your parents can't and there
aren't other relatives. 
> > Thus, if the Dursleys didn't want Harry, Sirius would have been
the next in line to raise 
> >Harry. We see Sirius, after he gets out of prison, taking some
responsibility for Harry as if 
> >he were a legal gaurdian, which the wizarding world considered him
to be more than the
> > Dursleys.
> 
  Kim Jaudon <kim4fsu at ...> wrote:
>
> Except "Godfather" is a Christian designation.  In the mainstream
religions with which I am familiar, it is a person who is responsible
for continuing a child's spiritual growth.  In that way, it's more
than "taking care of."  It's a vow to continue what the parents have
begun, and to continue the faith to which they hold.  In that context,
I think this is a fascinating question that none of us here will be
able to answer.  What is the faith of the wizarding world?  Ah
now...that is the question, isn't it?
> 
 

colebiancardi: 

well, I am not an expert on other Christian religions, but I thought
Godparents were a Catholic thing.  I am not aware if other Christian
faiths use the same rituals & ceremonies that the Catholic Church
uses.  Also, that is the traditional defination of a Godparent - "it
is a person who is responsible for continuing a child's spiritual
growth".  I am an lasped Catholic & yet my brother asked me to be his
son's Godmother.  I just think it is for ceremony nowadays - but I
could be wrong.

However, in the context of the Wizarding World, perhaps Godparents are
wizards who are responsible for continuing a child's wizarding growth.
 I know that in the UK, unlike the US, people don't really talk about
religion or God(or at least like it is here in the US).  A Brit told
me once that if their politicans ever mentioned the whole God business
in a stump speech like we do over here, they would be laughed at.

colebiancardi