Celebrating New Year's around the World!, Share your traditions here |
 Jan 3 2009, 08:34 PM
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Flesh-Eating-Slug Catcher  Posts: 200 Joined: 5:10pm January 3, 2009 Location: Travelling through time and space  |
Does anyone have the inside scoop on how Seamus Finnegan might celebrate in Ireland?
Well, since you ask.... I suspect Seamus might celebrate exactly the same way we all celebrate everything here in the Emerald Isle: drink heavily! We don't really have any traditions as such, certainly none that would differ from the UK or the USA, but I know for a fact that most of my friends would, like me, go to various parties for New Year's. And, because our TV coverage of the big event is painfully bad, we watch BBC... -------------------- "It's a terminal hyperlink!"
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Jan 3 2009, 08:37 PM
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Just Through the Brick Wall Posts: 2 Joined: 7:14pm January 3, 2009 Location: Landlady at The Leaky Cauldron, London |
Well, one of our new years traditions is actually a Finnish form of divination.
We melt special tin horse shoes, and then throw them in a bucket of water so they take a form. We then read our future from the horse shoes. If, for example, it is smooth and glossy, it means there will be a lot of love in the following year. If it is bumpy and rough, there will be money. it's rather cool. 
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Jan 3 2009, 10:11 PM
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Professional Diagon Alley Window Shopper Posts: 59 Joined: 3:44pm April 14, 2008 Location: Anywhere that has a good book in sight.  |
Every year with my family we get Chinese food and wacth the ball drop in New York. Then you read yourself to sleep with the first book of the year. This year, my book was Melissa Anelli's Harry: A History.
-------------------- Nitwit, Blubber, Oddment, Tweak!
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Jan 4 2009, 12:19 PM
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Inquiring about Double-ended Newts Posts: 982 Joined: 4:46pm September 16, 2006 Location: Trying to find the Room of Requirement. |
QUOTE(Hannah Longbottom @ Jan 3 2009, 08:37 PM)  Well, one of our new years traditions is actually a Finnish form of divination. We melt special tin horse shoes, and then throw them in a bucket of water so they take a form. We then read our future from the horse shoes. If, for example, it is smooth and glossy, it means there will be a lot of love in the following year. If it is bumpy and rough, there will be money. it's rather cool. That does sound very cool, Hannah Longbottom! Around here, people just eat pork and sauerkraut to celebrate. My family isn't from where I live, so we follow our own tradition. Every New Years Day we'd have black-eyed peas for good luck in the New Year. We had it this year as a side with corn bread and chicken and rice. *Edit to spell sauerkraut correctly* This post has been edited by Ravenklaw: Jan 4 2009, 12:21 PM |
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Jan 4 2009, 01:27 PM
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Slightly Tipsy  Posts: 31 Joined: 10:15am March 24, 2007 |
*hic* I is still recovering from my New Years in the kitchens. Winky drank a few too many drinks down there, even though old friend Dobby told Winky not too, oh yes...
-------------------- Thanks VivalaVida for the artwork for the Winky avatar!
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Jan 4 2009, 01:57 PM
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Stocking Snitches at Quality Quidditch Supplies  Posts: 694 Joined: 6:51pm November 1, 2005 Location: The Rare Books section in the Hogwarts library |
QUOTE(Winky @ Jan 4 2009, 01:27 PM) *hic* I is still recovering from my New Years in the kitchens. Winky drank a few too many drinks down there, even though old friend Dobby told Winky not too, oh yes... I'm glad you feel better, Winky. But you should learn to pass by that butterbear! What do Elves like to eat and drink at celebrations? -------------------- Avatar by tonksgirl |
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Jan 4 2009, 03:33 PM
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Selling maps of Diagon Alley to wizard tourists Posts: 7,447 Joined: 5:12pm July 5, 2006 Location: in a pool     |
I am usually gone on New Year's Eve on vacation somewhere, so we usually just watch the ball drop, or sometimes we'll be outside like this year and last watching fireworks if where ever we are has them.
I have some videos of this year's New Years celebration in the Atlantis hotel harbor, Paradise Island (Bahamas): Video 1 Video 2 Video 3 Video 4 (honking heard in the videos are from the yachts that the rich people in the harbor owned and they were honking  )
This post has been edited by JeffHpFan: Jan 4 2009, 03:34 PM -------------------- Avatar by TheJordanEdwards-- the coolest guy alive! |
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