Wizards don’t seem to know much, nor care much, about Muggle religions. Having a reference to the Bible and Jesus Christ in a tomb of wizards strikes me as very unlikely.
The Potter family is descendant of one of the Peverell brothers, inheriting the Cloak of Invisibility, a Deathly Hallow from him. That makes “The last enemy to be destroyed is death” a more likely motto for the Potter family.
Wizards celebrate both Christmas and Easter. No idea why they would, but that is established in HPMoR and in canon. With the exception of Roger Bacon, we have not heard much of anything about religious witches or wizards, but it will strike me as strange the magical world has no religions, if only from the muggleborns and their descendants.
The quote “The last enemy to be destroyed is death” precedes the Peverell brothers by a solid millennia. While the Deathly Hallows is provides (weak) evidence in the other direction, even if it were a family motto, the origination is probably from the bible, as would be common from an old, heraldic family. Still, it is sounds like a suitable epitaph.
And of course, this presumes another deviation from canon, or to say a myth from canon, that the Peverell brothers created the Deathly Hallows, rather than receiving them from Death. Death, who exists in as a semi-sentient semi-being in HPMoR.
On a related note… What happened to the tattered cloak left by the Dementor in Chapter 45? May there be two True Cloaks of Invisibility?
What happened to the tattered cloak left by the Dementor in Chapter 45?
I thought those were ordinary cloaks, probably given to the Dementors by the Aurors, to make them look more… presentable. The cloaks are destroyed by the Dementors’ presence, as all matter is, and have to be replaced.
As far as Christmas and Easter goes, the first of these specifically has a non-religious explanation in HPMoR:
The atmosphere at Hogwarts before Yuletide was usually bright and cheerful. The Great Hall had already been decorated in green and red, after a Slytherin and a Gryffindor whose Yule wedding had become a symbol of friendship transcending Houses and allegiances, a tradition almost as ancient as Hogwarts itself and which had even spread to Muggle countries.
No similar explanation has been given for Easter, but I think it’s reasonable to suppose that one exists.
Christmas and Easter both borrow heavily from pre-Christian European traditions. Presumably those threads are carried over even more strongly than in muggle Europe.
Canon strongly implies that the original story was a dramatization of the story of the Peverells, who actually just made powerful artifacts, iirc. Also, dementor cloaks probably aren’t invisibility cloaks, since people and other dementors can see cloaked dementors.
It doesn’t seem that unlikely given two facts :
Wizards don’t seem to know much, nor care much, about Muggle religions. Having a reference to the Bible and Jesus Christ in a tomb of wizards strikes me as very unlikely.
The Potter family is descendant of one of the Peverell brothers, inheriting the Cloak of Invisibility, a Deathly Hallow from him. That makes “The last enemy to be destroyed is death” a more likely motto for the Potter family.
Wizards celebrate both Christmas and Easter. No idea why they would, but that is established in HPMoR and in canon. With the exception of Roger Bacon, we have not heard much of anything about religious witches or wizards, but it will strike me as strange the magical world has no religions, if only from the muggleborns and their descendants.
The quote “The last enemy to be destroyed is death” precedes the Peverell brothers by a solid millennia. While the Deathly Hallows is provides (weak) evidence in the other direction, even if it were a family motto, the origination is probably from the bible, as would be common from an old, heraldic family. Still, it is sounds like a suitable epitaph.
And of course, this presumes another deviation from canon, or to say a myth from canon, that the Peverell brothers created the Deathly Hallows, rather than receiving them from Death. Death, who exists in as a semi-sentient semi-being in HPMoR.
On a related note… What happened to the tattered cloak left by the Dementor in Chapter 45? May there be two True Cloaks of Invisibility?
I thought those were ordinary cloaks, probably given to the Dementors by the Aurors, to make them look more… presentable. The cloaks are destroyed by the Dementors’ presence, as all matter is, and have to be replaced.
As far as Christmas and Easter goes, the first of these specifically has a non-religious explanation in HPMoR:
No similar explanation has been given for Easter, but I think it’s reasonable to suppose that one exists.
I took that passage to indicate the tradition of green and red colors during Christmastide, not of the origination of any holiday,
Christmas and Easter both borrow heavily from pre-Christian European traditions. Presumably those threads are carried over even more strongly than in muggle Europe.
That does sounds like a solid theory as to why Wizards celebrate those holidays. I’ll update my beliefs with this new evidence.
Canon strongly implies that the original story was a dramatization of the story of the Peverells, who actually just made powerful artifacts, iirc. Also, dementor cloaks probably aren’t invisibility cloaks, since people and other dementors can see cloaked dementors.
Evidence, please?
Since Dementor cloaks don’t appear to keep Dementors invisible in any way, this seems a bit of a leap.
Evidence would be the existence of Dementors, which are personifications of death and may or may not be semi-sentient.