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Holidays at Hogwarts
"I think all this merits a good feast. Might I ask you to go and alert the kitchens?"
-- Albus Dumbledore
Hallowe'en
Christmas
St. Valentine's Day
Easter
the Deathday Party
Holidays and celebrations in detail: 1991-1992
Hallowe'en (PS10, 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)
- the Hallowe'en Feast - evening meal
- entertainment
Christmas (PS12, CS, PA, GF23)
decorations:
- twelve Christmas trees
- Christmas ornaments
- 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
- 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
- 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 (PS, GF, OP)
- 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. Students studying for O.W.L.s or N.E.W.T.s generally stay over the holiday for uninterrupted studying, however.
