”The Hall looked spectacular. Festoons of holly and mistletoe hung all around the walls and no fewer than twelve towering Christmas trees stood around the room, some sparkling with tiny icicles, some glittering with hundreds of candles.”
(J.K. Rowing, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, page-144)
An awestruck Harry Potter sees for the first time the glorious decoration at the Great Hall for Christmas and declares that ‘this would probably be the best Christmas he’d ever had.’1 unlike many other wizards and witches Harry had never been included into the merry festivity of Christmas therefore the festival itself at Hogwarts would become a joyous occasion where for the first time he would receive any gifts at all. But it is Christmas and Mistletoes and Easter as well Halloween which remains puzzling and questions arise over the religious background in Rowling’s Wizardry world.
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Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, Rowling creates the fantasy world of Harry Potter and his friends who study at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, learning spells and incantation, brewing potions in cauldrons, observing star movement at night in the Astronomy Tower, and apart from that fighting evil in the form malevolent Lord Voldemort or Dark Lord or you-know-who. The tale is about triumph of good over evil, power of love above all, friendship and family but not only is it about moralistic appreciation but also filled with exciting new game, called Quiddich, colourful streets of Diagon alley, and more importantly the mysterious yet liberating Hogwarts school where students lived there like a boarding school away from their