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Post by ginnyrules27 on Jul 13, 2012 15:21:50 GMT -5
The only religious holiday that is mentioned in the series is Christmas. I know that Christmas is mainly a non-religious holiday for those who view it that way (like me!) but I was wondering if there were any other religions in the series?
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Post by kumainpink on Jul 13, 2012 15:28:09 GMT -5
Like I said in the other thread, I believe it is highly possible. Magic is all over the world, after all! There have to be other religions and cultures that are involved!
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Post by ginnyrules27 on Jul 13, 2012 15:30:34 GMT -5
I just noticed your answer in the other thread :oops: The only reason I ask this question is so I can judge how realistically the reactions would be in another story I'm trying to write (branching off of the story the Kuma plot bunny gave me)
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Post by kumainpink on Jul 13, 2012 15:31:42 GMT -5
Nah, don't say oops. I just wanted to post my answer here too.  |
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Post by ginnyrules27 on Jul 13, 2012 15:32:27 GMT -5
That oops emoticon is rather freaky |
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Post by kumainpink on Jul 13, 2012 15:32:54 GMT -5
XD Yes, it is.
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Post by 19811945 on Jul 13, 2012 16:28:53 GMT -5
The only other one is Easter, and even then it's not as big as the Christmas one.
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Post by kumainpink on Jul 13, 2012 16:30:07 GMT -5
I'm sorry, but I have to disagree with you there. Other magical communities would have their own cultures to deal with.
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Post by littleroma on Jul 13, 2012 16:34:10 GMT -5
Easter and to Christians Easter is slightly bigger than Christmas
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Post by 19811945 on Jul 13, 2012 16:34:17 GMT -5
I'm sorry, but I have to disagree with you there. Other magical communities would have their own cultures to deal with. I was thinking at Hogwarts, that they don't celebrate as big, or that they just pile too much homework on the kids. |
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Post by werewulfking on Jul 13, 2012 16:44:59 GMT -5
In my opinion they don't seem to be religious or even with a religious background.
It is more like they adapted to a demand for festivities.
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Post by kumainpink on Jul 13, 2012 17:18:10 GMT -5
Perhaps, but that's just the one culture we see! What about the various other ones around the world? We know nothing of them!
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Post by werewulfking on Jul 13, 2012 17:19:56 GMT -5
Well but normally a person who could use godlike powers like wizards can don't need a religion and only believe in other powerful wizards.
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Post by kumainpink on Jul 13, 2012 17:24:24 GMT -5
But that doesn't change the fact that people do grow up with these things. There's no way that nothing cultural didn't get through to the Wizarding World as a whole.
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Post by werewulfking on Jul 13, 2012 17:30:06 GMT -5
Yes but at least the purebloods or anybody who grew up in a wizarding family doesn't know anything about religion. Like they don't know much about muggles in general. And the muggle-borns would most likely lose any attachment to religion in their school years and then continue living without religion after school.
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Post by kumainpink on Jul 13, 2012 17:31:30 GMT -5
It all depends on what values the pure-bloods have, I think. I doubt all the same bits of culture and religion translated from muggle to magical, but customs and the like might have been kept. And maybe some religious things, too. We'll never really know, sadly.  |
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Post by werewulfking on Jul 13, 2012 17:35:59 GMT -5
Well I like to think that if any religion exists then it would be a religion that developed much earlier than christianity. Like a nature religion or maybe from the times of the egyptian wizards.
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Post by kumainpink on Jul 13, 2012 17:37:21 GMT -5
Or how about the pagan gods from Greek and Roman mythology?
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Post by werewulfking on Jul 13, 2012 17:39:43 GMT -5
well even those are a bit more recent than what I thought but maybe those too. When I think about England I always come back to the religious practices that build Stonehenge which is much older than greek and roman mythology.
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