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[Bruce Alan Wilson]

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We don't see Anthony celebrating Chanukah, but we don't know that he definitely
doesn't.  It isn't relevant to the story.  JKR isn't writing a travelogue or a
sociological tract--she's telling a story.  I'd imagine that Wizards are like
Muggles--some religious, some not, and in varying degrees.  (I have sometimes
amused myself by imagining a conversation over in Lambeth Palace at the same
time as the first chapter of OOTP involving a visit from "the OTHER
Archbishop.")

The objection to no mention of 'the next great adventure' in DD's funeral is not
really relevant because we see it through Harry's eyes, and he wasn't really
paying all that much attention to what the black-robed wizard was saying; for
all we know it could have been a perfectly Christian funeral homily.  (And even
if he had paid attention, would he have recognized it?  The Dursleys don't
strike me as churchgoers.

In addition to the Fat Friar and the picture of the monks, weren't there the
ghosts of some nuns at Sir Nicholas' Deathday Party?

Bruce Alan Wilson

"The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.  Other forms of
transport grow daily more nightmarish.  Only the bicycle remains pure in
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