Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Holidays at Hogwarts

"I think all this merits a good feast. Might I ask you to go and alert the kitchens?"
     -- Albus Dumbledore

Halloween
Christmas
St. Valentine's Day
Easter
the Deathday Party

Holidays and celebrations in detail: 1991-1992
 


Halloween(SS10, CS8, PA8, GF16)
decorations:

  • a thousand live bats
  • candles in pumpkins
  • many flaming orange streamers swimming across the ceiling
  • pumpkins large as garden sheds (PA)
    • festivities:
  • the Halloween Feast - evening meal
  • entertainment

    • Christmas(SS12, CS, PA, GF23)

    decorations:

  • twelve Christmas trees
  • decorations of live fairies
  • mysterious lights in the suits of armor
  • armor enchanted to sing carols
  • snow, dry and warm, falling from the enchanted ceiling
  • for the Yule Ball: walls covered in silver frost, garlands of mistletoe and ivy
    • festivities:
  • the Christmas Feast - midday meal
  • the Yule Ball - from 8 pm until midnight (1994 only)
  • presents - piled on the foot of their beds when they wake up
    • other
  • McGonagall goes around at the beginning of December having kids sign up who are planning to stay at Hogwarts over the holidays

    • St. Valentines Day (CS13)
  • A special "treat" arranged by Lockhart
  • Walls covered in lurid pink hearts
  • surly dwarves in cupid costumes delivering cards and singing valentines



    • Easter(SS , GF )

    • Nothing particularly seems to happen for Easter, but Mrs. Weasley does send the kids Easter eggs filled with sweets.

      • there is a week off at Easter, so presumably some of the students go home
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